Tsosib Sumkyil Township

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Tsosib Sumkyil
ཚོ་སྲིབ་གསུམ་དཀྱིལ
Churup Sumkhel, Chulusongjie
County
Zanda
Population
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Tibetan language
Time zone+8
Map
Map 1: Tsosib Sumkyil Townshp[a]

Tsosib Sumkyil (

Spiti River and an upstream tributary of the Sutlej river. China has ongoing border disputes with India for the southwestern border of the region near Kaurik and the northern border near Chumar
.

Name

The township is named after two villages, both of which appear to have two native names.

Tsosib (

Pare Chu just before the river enters the Indian Spiti district (32°06′47″N 78°42′41″E / 32.1131°N 78.7114°E / 32.1131; 78.7114 (Tsosib)
).

Sumkyil or Sumkhel (Tibetan: གསུམ་དཀྱིལ, Wylie: gsum dkyil, THL: sum kyil or Tibetan: གསུམ་འཁྱིལ, Wylie: gsum 'khyil, THL: sum khyil, also spelt Sumkyi, Sumgyi, Somgyi and Sonjie) is a farming village on a tributary of Pare Chu called Sumkyil Chu. (32°08′48″N 78°46′36″E / 32.1467°N 78.7766°E / 32.1467; 78.7766 (Sumkyil)).

The Sumkyil Chu stream flows through a wide enough valley to support several farming villages along its course, including Manja (Chinese: 曼扎; pinyin: Màn zhā), Tuntun (Chinese: 顿堆; pinyin: Dùn duī) and Azire (Chinese: 阿孜热; pinyin: Ā zī rè). The reference to Sumkyil in the name of the township could also to the entire Sumkyil valley.

The historical name of the region was Tsotso,[3][4] or Tocho.[5]

Geography

The region of the Tsosib Sumkyil Township is entirely mountainous, with the western parts belonging to the

Zanskar Range and the eastern parts belonging to the Ladakh Range. The Pare Chu river flows between the two, entering the region from Rupshu
in the north. Several tributaries drain into the river from both the sides, with the Sumkyil Chu being one of the last. The Sumkyil Chu valley is well-populated with several farming villages dotting the valley. After the junction with Sumkyil Chu, the Pare Chu river flows southwest and enters Indian territory between Tsosib and Kaurik.

History

It is learnt that a good part of the township used to part of

Nyima Namgyal (r. 1691–1729). Mentioned in the records were the villages of Kaurik, Gue (Gyu), Shaktot, Tsurup, Sumkyil, Kharak and Bargyok (Berchok).[5]

The region appears to have become part of Tibet sometime before Ladakh came under the control of Dogras. In 1847, when the British boundary commissioners were sent to the region, they found the boundary of Spiti to lie between Kaurik and Tsurup.[6]

See also

  • List of towns and villages in Tibet

Notes

  1. Office of the Geographer, 2012.[1]

References

  1. ^ Large Scale International Boundaries (LSIB), Europe and Asia, 2012, EarthWorks, Stanford University, retrieved 2 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Geographical names of Tibet AR (China): Ngari prefecture". KNAB Place Name Database. Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03.
  3. ^ Strachey, Physical Geography of Western Tibet (1854), p. 13:.
  4. ^ Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1890, p. 654 – via archive.org
  5. ^ a b Report of the Officials (1962), p. 72.
  6. ^ Kaul, India China Boundary (2003), pp. 55–56: "Thus in Spiti, it is clear, that the boundary ran along the villages of Khyuri [Kaurik], Shaktolb and Chooret.".

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