Moincêr

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Ménshì xiāng
门 士 乡
Moincêr, Minsar
Moincêr, Minsar (China)
Moincêr, Minsar
Moincêr, Minsar
Coordinates 31 ° 11 ′  N , 80 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 31 ° 11 ′  N , 80 ° 46 ′  E
Location of the district of Gar (pink), in which Moincêr is locatedLocation of the district of Gar (pink), in which Moincêr is located
Basic data
Country People's Republic of China

Autonomous area

Tibet
Administrative district Ngari
ISO 3166-2 CN-XZ
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Residents 2193 (2010)

Moincêr , also Minsar ( Men ser , Chinese  門 士 鄉  /  门 士 乡 , Pinyin Ménshì xiāng , Tibetan: མོན་ འཚེར་), is a municipality in the west of the People's Republic of China . It belongs to the administrative area of Gar County , which in turn is subordinate to the Ngari administrative district in the Tibet Autonomous Region , and is located about 1,250 kilometers west of Lhasa . It is located about thirty kilometers west of Lake Mansarovar . Moincêr is a village that as an exclave, like Darchen Labrang , was initially under Bhutanese , not Tibetan, suzerainty since the 1640s . The claim passed to Ladakh in 1842 , i. H. finally in 1846 the rulers of Jammu and Kashmir , a princely state of British India, until 1947.

population

Moincêr had a population of 2,193 at the 2010 census. The 2000 population census showed a total population of 1944 people in 443 households, of which 965 were men and 979 women.

history

The Ladakhi prince Sen-ge Nam-gyal ( Sangs gyas rnam rgyal; r. 1590-1640) was impressed by the peace-building organization of Bhutan through Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel . He left eight villages to that ruler, the taxes of which were intended to secure the support of Bhutanese pilgrims to Kailash .

This assignment was finally enshrined in the Peace Treaty of Temisgang 1684. A nominal tribute was to be paid to Tibet every three years. The Mughals had previously supported the Prince of Ladakh against the 5th Dalai Lama , who invaded Leh in 1681 .

William Moorecroft, who traveled through in July 1812, was the first European to mention the place. The tax amount paid to Kashmir in 1853 was 56  rupees . He also described the "village" Darchen Labrang as consisting of four adobe houses and 28 tents.

In the early twentieth century, both Bhutan and Kashmir made claims. Tibet just wanted to admit that it was only foreign owned estates. The British Tibet campaign (1903/4) also strengthened the position of the Indian princes. The tax paid to Kashmir in 1905 reached Rs 297. The Indian report on the 1921 census names 44 houses in which 87 men and 73 women lived. The tribute due to Tibet by this time had taken the form of certain compulsory labor and contributions in kind.

During the negotiations on the 1954 Sino-Indian friendship treaty (“Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence”), known in India as the “Panchsheel Agreement”, which, concluded for eight years, expired shortly before the war in 1962 , Nehru was ready to renounce the rights there . The Chinese side, accepted this, but was not yet complete ruler of Tibet at that time, so that until 1959 taxes were handed over from Minsar to the government of Jammu and Kashmir . Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, a minister in the state government, visited the site in 1954. The Bhutanese government confirmed its claims by sending diplomatic notes to China in the summer of 1959.

In 1966, the government of the People's Republic established the Moincêr (门 士 区) district.

The old rights, which de facto no longer existed in 1962 , have been the subject of renewed attention since the beginning of the most recent border dispute between the powers in India in 2013.

Administrative structure

Moincêr is divided into two villages at the village level , namely Moincêr (门 士 村) and Suoduo (索 多 村).

traffic

Moincêr is now on National Road 219 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 门 士 乡.行政 区划 网站, April 5, 2016, accessed July 30, 2019 (Chinese).
  2. ↑ 西藏自治区 乡 、 镇 、 街道 人口. State Statistics Office of the People's Republic of China , accessed June 11, 2019 (Chinese).
  3. ↑ See Aris, Michael; The Raven Crown: The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan; London 1984 (Serindia Publications)
  4. ↑ Going further on the connection between the two ruling houses: Schuh, Dieter; Early relationships between the Ladakhi ruling house and the southern 'Brug-pa school; Archive for Central Asian Historical Research, 1983, No. 2
  5. ↑ Travel report: A Journey to Lake Manasarovara in Un des, a Province of little Tibet; Asiatick Researches, Vol. 12 (1816), pp. 375-534.
  6. ^ Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs; Report of the Officials of the Government of India and the People's Republic of China on the Boundary Question; MEA Feb. 29, 1961, p. 59.
  7. ↑ http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/demchok-and-the-new-silk-road-chinas-double-standard (zggr. 2017-08-05)
  8. ↑ 门 士 乡. State Statistical Office of the People's Republic of China , accessed July 30, 2019 (Chinese).