Dah (or Dha, Da; ) is a

panchayat village Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

in the

Leh district Leh district is a district in the union territory of Ladakh, India. With an area of 45,110 ''km'2'', it is the second largest district in the country smaller only to Kutch. It is bounded on the north by Gilgit-Baltistan's Kharmang and Gha ...

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. It is the most prominent of all the

Brokpa The Brokpa (), sometimes referred to as Minaro, are a small ethnic group mostly found in the union territory of Ladakh, India around the villages of Dha and Hanu. Some of the community are also located across the Line of Control in Baltista ...

settlements, other than Dah, it has five hamlets: Byema, Baldes, Sanid, Pardos, and Lastiang. It is located in lower

Indus The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, flows northwest through the disputed region of Kashmir, ...

valley of Ladakh in the Khalsi

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

Geography

The village and the

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...

are built into the side of a high mountain wall and are situated on a slope above the fields. The alleys are used as irrigation canals, with water flowing into the fields on a regular basis.The hamlets, which are an extension of the Dah village are sparsely populated.They are located between or near cultivated fields strewn with fruit trees, which are especially concentrated near the stream and water canals. All of the residents of these hamlets have ancestral homes in the Dah village. They also have houses in the higher valley pastures of mDa-brouk, where they graze their livestock and cultivate land in the summer.

Demographics

According to 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 ...

, Dah has 103 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 58.95%.

References

External links

* Jitaditya Narzary
Into The Brokpa Country: Dah, Hanu, & Beama
Travelling Slacker (blog), 27 October 2018. * Jitaditya Narzary
Dah Village: The Citadel of Brokpas
Travelling Slacker (blog), 14 January 2019. {{Ladakh-geo-stub Villages in Khalsi tehsil

Geography

Demographics

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