Tangtse

For other uses, see Taktsé.

Tangtse
Drangtse
Village
Tangtse is located in Ladakh
Tangtse
Tangtse
Location in Ladakh, India
Tangtse is located in India
Tangtse
Tangtse
Tangtse (India)
Coordinates: 34°01′49″N 78°10′04″E / 34.0301500°N 78.1677300°E / 34.0301500; 78.1677300
CountryIndia
Union TerritoryLadakh
DistrictLeh
TehsilDurbuk
Government
 • CouncillorTashi Namgyal Yakzee[1]
Population
 (2011)
 • Total681
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Census code874

Tangtse[2] or Drangtse[3][a] (Tibetan: བྲང་རྩེ, Wylie: brang rtse, THL: drang tsé)[11][12] is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.[6] It is located in the Durbuk tehsil. Traditionally, it was regarded as the border between the Nubra region to the north and the Pangong region to the south. It was a key halting place on the trade route between Turkestan and Tibet.[11][b] It was also a site of wars between Ladakh and Tibet.

During the Jammu and Kashmir princely rule, Tangtse was the headquarters of an ilaqa (subdistrict), whose territory included the Pangong Lake area, the Chang Chenmo Valley and the Aksai Chin plateau. Tangtse was also a key halting place on the Chang Chenmo route to Turkestan, via the Chang Chenmo Valley and Aksai Chin, which the British tried to promote for a few decades.

Tangtse is one of the 26 constituencies of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council of the Leh district. Following the 2020 election, the Councillor for Tangste is Tashi Namgyal Yakzee, who is also in the Executive Council.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh (Executive Council and Councillors)". Union Territory of Ladakh, Government of India. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  2. ^ Cunningham, Ladak (1854), p. 272; Phartiyal, Singh & Nag, Trans- and Tethyan Himalayan Rivers (2017), pp. 375–376
  3. ^ Charak, General Zorawar Singh (1983), pp. 104–105; Handa, Buddhist Western Himalaya (2001), p. 204
  4. ^ Drew, The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories (1875), pp. 327–328; Fisher, Rose & Huttenback, Himalayan Battleground (1963), p. 109
  5. ^ Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak (1890), p. 810; Fisher, Rose & Huttenback, Himalayan Battleground (1963), p. 33, footnote
  6. ^ a b "Blockwise Village Amenity Directory" (PDF). Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference census_2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Bruneau & Bellezza 2013, p. 23.
  9. ^ a b Bruneau & Bellezza 2013, p. 21.
  10. ^ Fisher, Rose & Huttenback, Himalayan Battleground (1963), p. 33.
  11. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Peter was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Francke, Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part 2 (1926), pp. 107.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rizvi Aksai Chin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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