Chaglagam is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous
circle
A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is con ...
in the
Anjaw district
Anjaw District (Pron:/ˈændʒɔ:/) (Burmese : အန်််ကျော) is an administrative district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India. It was created district in 2004, by splitting off from the Lohit district under the ...
in the
north-eastern state of
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares ...
,
India
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.
[2011 Census of India: Chaglagam](_blank)
/ref> It is on the bank of the Delei River.
The Chaglagam Circle contains the upper basin of the Delei River, on the border the Zayul County of China's Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions of à ...
. It has a population of 1,681 people, distributed in 18 villages, as per the 2011 census.Anjaw District Census Handbook, Part A
Census of India, 2012, p. 20.
The population consists of primarily
Digaro Mishmi people.
Geography
![Anjaw district with circles and other details](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Anjaw_district_with_circles_and_other_details.png)
Chaglagam is situated on the bank of the Delei River, which is a substantial tributary of the
Lohit River
The Lohit River, also known as the Zayul Chu by the Tibetans and Tellu by the Mishmis, is a river in China and India, which joins the Brahmaputra River in the state of Assam. It is formed in the Zayul County of the Tibet Autonomous Region, ...
. The Delei River rises below the Glei Pass
on the border with Tibet, and flows through the Chaglagam Circle along with its numerous tributaries (Duren, Kajap, Kazumiyo, Kalangmiyo etc.). It joins the Lohit River near
Hayuliang.
[Map of Anjaw]
Anjaw District website, retrieved 5 July 2021.
Hayuliang is the nearest town to Chaglagam. It is also the headquarters of the
Hayuliang Subdivision, which includes Chaglagam.
The Chaglagam Circle borders the
Zayul County of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The people of Chaglagam traditionally participated in Indo-Tibetan trade between Assam and Zayul, acting as middlemen.
They travelled to Zayul via the Glei Pass, which is called Dri La by the Tibetans, leading to the village of Dri
in the western
Zayul valley.
It was said to take 5 days march to Glei Pass from
Rima
Rima, also known as Rima the Jungle Girl, is the fictional heroine of W. H. Hudson's 1904 novel '' Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest''. In it, Rima, a primitive girl of the shrinking rain forest of South America, meets Abel, a pol ...
in Tibet and another 20 days to reach
Sadiya
Sadiya is a town in Tinsukia district, Assam. It was the capital of the Chutia Kingdom and after the downfall of the kingdom it became the seat of the ''Sadiya-khowa-Gohain'' of the Ahom kingdom. Extensive remains of buildings and fortifica ...
in Assam.
[
Another pass called Hadigra, to the west of Glei Pass, was also used, but less often.][
Confidential note of the Chief of General Staff in 1912, reproduced in
]
To the northwest of the Chaglagam Circle is an anomalous jut-in of Tibetan territory called Fishtail-II, a relic of inadequate surveying in the 1914 McMahon Line
The McMahon Line is the boundary between Tibet and British India as agreed in the maps and notes exchanged by the respective plenipotentiaries on 24–25 March 1914 at Delhi, as part of the 1914 Simla Convention.
The line delimited the res ...
map. The region is patrolled by both Indian and Chinese troops and occasional stand-offs are reported.
Chinese incursions
In August 2013, China's People's Liberation Army troops had intruded 20 to 30 km inside the Indian territory and stayed there for 4 days before being sent back by India's Indo-Tibetan Border Police
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is a border patrol organization of India deployed along its borders with Tibet Autonomous Region. It is one of the seven Central Armed Police Forces, established in 1962 in the aftermath of the Sino-India ...
(ITBF).
Transportation
Chaglagam is located on the proposed Mago-Thingbu
Thingbu is a settlement in Tawang district in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Location
It is located on the proposed Mago-Thingbu to Vijaynagar Arunachal Pradesh Frontier Highway along the McMahon Line, alignment map ...
to Vijaynagar Arunachal Pradesh Frontier Highway along the McMahon Line
The McMahon Line is the boundary between Tibet and British India as agreed in the maps and notes exchanged by the respective plenipotentiaries on 24–25 March 1914 at Delhi, as part of the 1914 Simla Convention.
The line delimited the res ...
, alignment map of which can be see
here
an
here
Demographics
As per the 2011 Census of India
The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...
, Chaglagam has 192 residents across 29 households. 155 are male, and 37 are female.
Notes
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External links
Chaglagam Circle
OpenStreetMap, retrieved 2 December 2021.
{{Minority Concentrated Districts in India
Villages in Anjaw district
Borders of Arunachal Pradesh