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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Dah Hanu
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| settlement_type = Twin Villages
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| pushpin_map = India Ladakh#India
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ladakh, India
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| pushpin_map_caption1 = Location in India
| coordinates = {{coord|34.60|N|76.50|E|display=inline,title}}
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| subdivision_type1 = [[States and union territories of India|Union Territory]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Ladakh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Leh district|Leh]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Tehsil]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Khalatse|Khalsi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://leh.nic.in/about-district/administrative-setup/village/|title=Villages | District Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh | India}}</ref>
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'''[[Dah, Ladakh|Dah]]''' (also known as '''Dha''') and '''[[Hanoo|Hanu]]''' are two villages of the [[Brokpa]] of the [[Leh District]] of the [[India]]n [[States and union territories of India|union territory]] of [[Ladakh]]. Until recently, these were the only two villages where tourists were allowed to visit out of a number of Brokpa villages.

The [[Dard people]] of Dah Hanu are nominally [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] but also worship their own animist pantheon of gods. They converted to Buddhism in the mid-nineteenth century.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nicolaus|first=Peter|date=2015|title=Residues of Ancient Beliefs among the Shin in the Gilgit-Division and Western Ladakh|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43899199|journal=Iran & the Caucasus|volume=19|issue=3|pages=201–264|doi=10.1163/1573384X-20150302|jstor=43899199|issn=1609-8498}}</ref> They have an [[Caucasian race|Indo-European]] appearance in contrast to the predominant Tibeto-Mongol inhabitants of most of [[Ladakh]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = Dha Hanu route intro|url = http://www.himalayabybike.com/Himalaya_by_Bike/Dha_Hanu_route_intro.html|website = www.himalayabybike.com|access-date = 2015-09-27|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170822100621/http://www.himalayabybike.com/Himalaya_by_Bike/Dha_Hanu_route_intro.html|archive-date = 22 August 2017|url-status = dead}}</ref>

Dha and Hanu are two villages situated in the Dhahanu valley, about 163 km northwest of [[Leh]] in [[Ladakh]]. Being at a lower altitude, Dha and Hanu is warmer than Leh, allowing for the cultivation of wine-grapes and cherries as well as apricots and walnuts.<ref name=":0" />

"Some households still practice [[polyandry]]...it is the groom who pays the bride price. Women have rights of divorce."<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum|url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041107/spectrum/main1.htm|website = www.tribuneindia.com|access-date = 2015-09-27}}</ref>

==References==
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