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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Dardic speaking ethnic group in Kashmir region}}<br />
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{{Infobox ethnic group|<br />
| image = Brokpa Aryan man with traditional headdress.jpg<br />
| caption = Brokpa man dressed in [[folk costume]] in [[Ladakh]]<br />
| group = Brogpa Minaro, Dakpa, Sangtengpa<br />
| population = 48,439 (2011 census)<br />
| total_ref = <ref name="Cen2011">{{cite web|title=ST-14 Scheduled Tribe Population By Religious Community|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/SCST-Series/ST14.html|website=Census of India|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, India|access-date=15 October 2017}}</ref><br />
| popplace = [[Garkon]], [[Dha-Hanu]], Sharchay, Chulichan-Batalik in [[Ladakh]] and [[Gilgit-Baltistan]]<br />
| langs = [[Brokskat language|Brokskat]]<br />
| rels = Majority [[File:Star and Crescent.svg|15px]] [[Islam]] 45,103 (93.2%)<ref name="CPS">{{Cite web|url=https://blog.cpsindia.org/2016/12/religion-data-of-census-2011-xxxiii-jk.html|title=Religion Data of Census 2011: XXXIII JK-HP-ST|access-date=23 February 2020}}</ref><br />
<br/>{{small|Small minorities of [[File:Dharma Wheel.svg|16px]] [[Buddhism]] 3,144 (6.5%) and [[File:Om.svg|15px]] [[Hinduism]] 133 (0.3%)<ref name="CPS"/>}}<br />
| related = Other [[Dardic peoples|Dards]] and [[Indo-Aryans]]<br />
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The '''Brokpa''' are a small community of [[Dard people]] who had migrated to the eastern regions of Kashmir in the remote past. They speak a language called [[Brokskat|Brokstat]], an Indo-European [[Shina language]], which is unintelligeble with other Shina dialects. They are mostly found in the Indian Union territory of [[Ladakh]], but a few also in Pakistan-administered [[Baltistan]].<br />
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They are mainly found in [[Dah, Ladakh|Dha]], [[Hanu, Ladakh|Hanu]], Beama, [[Garkon]], Darchiks, [[Batalik]], Sharchay and Chulichan.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Part of the community are also located in the Deosai plateau just across the [[Line of Control]] in the villages Ganoaks, Morol, Dananusar, and Chechethang in [[Baltistan]]. They are said to have originally come from [[Chilas]] and settled in the area generations ago. The Brokpa in the [[Leh district]] are mostly Buddhist while those in the [[Kargil district]] are mostly Muslim. A small percentage also follow Hinduism.<ref name="CPS"/><br />
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== Name ==<br />
Minaro is an alternate ethnic name. 'Brogpa' is the name given by the Ladakhi to the people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bkk|title=Brokskat|website=Ethnologue|access-date=23 February 2020}}</ref> It derives from Drukpa, which comes from the Tibetan word 'Drugu' (for an ethnic ''Turk''.) Or it may just mean འབྲོག་པ། (pronounced Brokpa in Ladakh) a word for nomads.<br />
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==Diet==<br />
The traditional Brogpa diet is based on locally grown foods such as barley and hardy wheat prepared most often as tsampa/sattu (roasted flour). It takes in different ways.{{clarify|date=June 2016}} Other important foods include potatoes, radishes, turnips, and Gur-Gur Cha, a brewed tea made of black tea, butter and salt.<br />
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Dairy and poultry sources are not eaten because of religious taboos. Brogpa eat three meals a day: ''Choalu Unis'' (breakfast), ''Beali'' (lunch) and ''Rata Unis'' (dinner). Brogpa vary with respect to the amount of meat (mainly mutton) that they eat. A household's economic position decides the consumption of meat. It is only during festivals and rituals that all have greater access to mutton.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/S-EM/EM-02-0-000-08-Web/EM-02-2-000-08-Abst-PDF/EM-02-2-077-08-099-Bhasin-V/EM-02-2-077-08-099-Bhasin-V-Tt.pdf|title=Bhasin, Veena: Social Change, Religion and Medicine among Brokpas of Ladakh, Ethno-Med., 2(2): 77-102 (2008)|access-date=23 February 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Economy and employment==<br />
The Brogpa economy has shifted from agropastoralism to wage labor, and the division of labor that relied on stratifications of age and gender is now obsolete. The Brogpa transition to private property, monogamy, nuclear families, formal education, wage labor, and their incorporation into a highly militarized economy of soldiering and portering illuminates the complex workings of modernity in Ladakh.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bhan |first=Mona |section=Becoming Brogpa |title=Counterinsurgency, Democracy and the Politics of Identity in India |publisher= Routledge South Asia Series}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Garkon]]<br />
*[[Shin of Hindukush|Shin of Hindu Kush]]<br />
*[[Brokskat|Brokpa dialect of Shina]]<br />
* [[Nuristani people]]<br />
* [[Kalash people]]<br />
* [[Hunza people]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080311060859/http://www.thefareast.info/Bhutan/Bhutaninformatie/Bhutaninformation-english.html The Far East in Words and Pictures]<br />
* {{Cite web|url=http://heritage-key.com/world/nomadic-tribesmen-nazi-icons-who-were-aryans|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807100522/http://heritage-key.com/world/nomadic-tribesmen-nazi-icons-who-were-aryans|url-status=dead|title=''From Nomadic Tribesmen to Nazi Icons: Who Were the Aryans?'', heritage-key.com|archive-date=7 August 2010|access-date=23 February 2020}}<br />
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