Dah, Ladakh

Dah
Dha
Village
Dah is located in Ladakh
Dah
Dah
Location in Ladakh, India
Dah is located in India
Dah
Dah
Dah (India)
Coordinates: 34°36′09″N 76°30′40″E / 34.6025°N 76.5112°E / 34.6025; 76.5112
Country India
Union Territory Ladakh
DistrictLeh
TehsilKhalsi
PanchayatDha
Population
 (2011)
 • Total609
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Census code939

Dah (or Dha, Da; Tibetan: མདའ, Wylie: mda, THL: da) is a panchayat village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India.[1] It is the most prominent of all the Brokpa settlements, other than Dah, it has six hamlets: Biama(or phunder) , Baldes, Sannit, Pardos, Lastyang and Dundur [2] It is located east of Batalik in Aryan Valley (Dah Hanu valley) of Indus river of Ladakh in the Khalsi tehsil.

  1. ^ "Blockwise Village Amenity Directory" (PDF). Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  2. ^ Vohra, Rohit (1982). "Ethnographic Notes on the Buddhist Dards of Ladakh: The Brog-Pā". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. 107 (1): 72. ISSN 0044-2666. JSTOR 25841799. My focus of attention was the village mDa. It is also the most prominent of all the Dard settlements, being composed of five hamlets, namely: Byema(phundar), Baldez, Sanid, Pardos, and Lastieahce.