India's last village - turtuk
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In this post, we will see about the mountain village called Turtuk, which is located on the border of India and Pakistan at the foothills of the Himalayas.Inhabited by the Balti people, this village was a major cause of the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.I have divided this entire video into two parts, in the first part I have taken a journey through the great valleys of the Himalayas and in the second part I have covered the life of these villagers in the frozen climate.
Turtuk is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous community development block in the Indian union territory of Ladakh. It is a small village sandwiched between the Karakorum Range and the Himalayas,[unreliable source?] and one of the northernmost villages of India, close to the Line of Control between India and Pakistan. Turtuk is situated in the Nubra tehsil of the Leh district,on the banks of the Shyok River.Geographically, the village is in the Baltistan region, which has been under Pakistani administration, except for five villages of the Turtuk block which are part of India. These villages form the only region in India populated by Balti people. Turtuk is known for its fruit, especially apricots.
Turtuk was administered by Pakistan & was under Pakistani control until the war of 1971, when the Indian Army regained control again. It is also one of the gateways to the Siachen Glacier.
Turtuk lies in the region of Baltistan, a region almost completely controlled by Pakistan. Turtuk is one of five Balti-populated villages under Indian control, the other four being Bogdang, Tyakshi, Chalunkha and Dhothang. It is the largest of the villages and has a claim to being the historical capital of the southern Chorbat section of the Shyok Valley. While Bogdang had been part of Indian-administered Ladakh since 1948, the other four villages were captured by Indian Army during.
The earliest known tribe which inhabited Turtuk were a Dardic tribe, locally known as the Brogpas, who are believed to have migrated from Chilas, a place now in Pakistan. They lived in Turtuk from an unknown time till, mostly probably, the 13th century AD. At some point around the 13th century AD, two warriors named Chuli and Yangdrung, came to Turtuk. They killed the king and eventually mostly of the locals fled Turtuk along the stream and across the mountain, to the villages now called Hanu, Dah and Domkhar.Right now, majority of the population in Turtuk are the direct descendants of Chuli and Yangdrung.As time passed on, people from outside came to Turtuk in search of work, bringing in more diversity. Turtuk is believed to have remained an independent principality till the conquest of Baltistan by the Sikh Empire.
The people of Turtuk were followers of the Bon religion before Islam. Bon rituals can be seen both in the tradition as well as the architecture. Islam came to Turtuk due to the famous Persian Sufi poet and preacher, Syed Ali Shah Hamdani. People in Turtuk, like in other places in Baltistan, practice the Sufi sect Sufis Noorbakshia, named after a disciple of Shah Hamdani, Syed Mohammad Noorbaksh. But by the nineteenth century, dominant sects from outside, such as Shia, Hanafi and later Wahabi started converting the Sufi Noorbakshia of Baltistan, and the Noorbakshia of Turtuk too. More recently, the Hanafis of Turtuk have also been converted to the more extreme subsets of Sunni. Right now, only half of the population practices Noorbakshias while the rest practice either Sunni sect or Wahhabi sect.
இந்த பதிவில் இமயமலையின் கடைக்கோடியில் இந்தியா பாகிஸ்தான் எல்லையில் அமைந்துள்ள டூர்டுக் என்ற மலை கிராமத்தை பற்றி பார்க்கலாம்.பால்டி இன மக்கள் வாழும் இந்த கிராமம் 1971 இந்திய பாகிஸ்தான் போருக்கு முக்கிய காரணமாக இருந்தது. இந்த முழு காணொளியையும் இரண்டு பகுதிகளாக பிரித்து,இமயமலை பிரம்மாண்ட பள்ளதாக்குகள் வழியே பயணம் செய்ததை முதல் பகுதியிலும்,உரை பணியில் இந்த கிராம மக்கள் வாழும் வாழ்க்கையை இரண்டாம் பகுதியிலும் பதிவேற்றம் செய்துள்ளேன்.
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