Brokpa
The Brokpa or Brogpa are a small group of the Dard who live in the valley of the villages Da and Hann about 163 km northwest of Leh in Ladakh .
Da and Hann are the two places where the Brokpa mainly live, but they are also based in other parts of Ladakh. One group lives on the Deosai Plateau on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control in Baltistan . Like the people of Gilgit , they speak an archaic form of Shina that is not associated with other dialects of Shina. It is said that they originally came from Chilas . The Brokpa group clearly stands out from the Tibetan inhabitants of the rest of Ladakh. The Brokpa are officially Buddhists , but they still have animistic elements and Bon rituals .
The traditional food of the Brokpa is based on locally grown products such as barley and wheat, often prepared as tsampa . Other important foods are potatoes and radishes, as well as Gur-Gur Cha , a tea made from black tea with butter and salt. Cattle and poultry are excluded from food for religious reasons. The consumption of meat depends largely on the economic situation of the people. Meat, mostly mutton, is only generally available for larger celebrations.
The Brokpa economy has moved from agriculture to wage labor and the separation of work by age and gender has now become obsolete. The transition of the Brokpa to private property, small families, formal training and wage labor and their entry into the Ladakh economy, which is dominated by soldiers and porters, marks their modernization.
Individual evidence
- ↑ From Nomadic Tribesmen to Nazi Icons: Who Were the Aryans? ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on heritage-key.com
- ^ A b Mona Bhan: Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare? Routledge, London / New York 2013.
- ↑ Veena Bhasin: Social Change, Religion and Medicine among Brokpas of Ladakh. In: Ethno-Med. , 2 (2): pp. 77–102 (2008, PDF)