At the bottom of the valley, the Charding Nullah branches into a 2 km-wide delta as it joins the Indus River. During the British colonial period, there was a village on both the sides of the delta, going by the name Demchok. The southern village appears to have been the main one, frequently referred to by travellers. The Chinese spell the name of the village as Dêmqog. Travel writer Romesh Bhattacharji stated in 2012 that they expected to set up a trading village, but India never renewed trade after the war. He stated that the southern Dêmqog village has only commercial buildings whereas the northern village has security-related buildings. Both the Indians and the Chinese have track roads going up the valley on the two sides of the Charding Nullah, reaching up to the Charding–Nilung Nullah Junction (CNNJ). Occasional stand-offs between the two forces at CNNJ are reported in the newspapers.
The Demchok region was mentioned as being part of the modern kingdom of Ladakh, when it was founded in the 10th century under the name Maryul. King Nyimagon, who founded the West Tibetan kingdom of Ngari Khorsum, divided his kingdom among his three sons upon his death. The eldest son Palgyigon, who is believed to have been the organiser of the Ladakh part of the kingdom, received Ladakh, and the other two sons received Guge–Purang and Zanskar. The description of Maryul in the Ladakh Chronicles mentions Demchok Karpo, the pyramidal white peak behind the Ladakhi Demchok village as one of the landmarks, possibly on its frontier. Other neighbouring landmarks like the Imis Pass ("Yimig rock") and an unidentified place called Raba Dmarpo were also mentioned.
Roughly 160 years after the Treaty of Tingmosgang, Ladakh came under the rule of the Dogras, who launched an invasion into the West Tibet leading to the Dogra–Tibetan War. The war ended in a stalemate. The resulting Treaty of Chushul in 1842 bound the parties to the "old, established frontiers".
The "rivulet" is evidently the Charding nullah. The Tibetan frontier guards prohibited the commission from proceeding beyond the rivulet. The commission placed the border on the Indus at Demchok, and followed the mountain watershed of the Indus river on its east, passing through the Jara La and Chang La passes. This appears to be the first time that the watershed principle was used in the Indian subcontinent for defining a boundary.
Between 1847 and November 1864, the British Indian government conducted the Kashmir Survey (Survey of Kashmir, Ladak, and Baltistan or Little Tibet), whose results were published in a reduced form in the Kashmir Atlas of 1868 by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Even though this was not an official boundary delimitation, the atlas made several adjustments to the boundary, including in the Demchok sector. Lamb states:
It is unclear who decided the altered boundary and on what grounds, given that the survey team leader T. G. Montgomerie was of the view that Demchok was in Ladakh. Indian commentators blame it on the rudimentary knowledge of the British surveyors about Ladakh — they were ignorant of past treaties as well as revenue records, and mistook pasture disputes as boundary disputes. In contrast, Lamb interprets this as a "compromise" wherein the British gave up territory in Demchok to include other territory near the Spanggur Lake.
Independent of the colonial cartography, the traditional boundaries continued to be followed on the ground. The Kashmir government disregarded the British maps and the Tibetan claims to Demchok seem to have persisted. Lamb states, "by the time of the Transfer of Power in 1947 nothing had been settled."
Since the 1950s, Indian maps do not agree entirely with either the 1846–1847 survey or the 1868 Kashmir Atlas: the Indian claims lie 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Demchok, whereas the 1846–1847 British boundary commission placed the border through the middle of Demchok, and British maps from the 1860s onwards showed the border to be 10 miles (16 km) west of Demchok.: 48 The Chinese claims coincide with British maps that placed the border 10 miles (16 km) west of Demchok.: 39, 48 The Chinese claims also coincided with the borders used by the 1945 National Geographic and 1955 United States Army Map Service maps.: 152
Sources vary on whether the larger sector is administered by China or India.
Also called Parigas.[1]
On 21 September 1965, the Indian Government wrote to the Chinese Government, complaining of Chinese troops who were said to have "moved forward in strength right up to the Charding Nullah and have assumed a threatening posture at the Indian civilian post on the western [northwestern] side of the Nullah on the Indian side of the 'line of actual control'." The Chinese Government responded on 24 September stating, "In fact, it was Indian troops who on September 18, intruded into the vicinity of the Demchok village on the Chinese side of the 'line of actual control' after crossing the Demchok River from Parigas (in Tibet, China)..."[2]
Claude Arpi, Demchok and the New Silk Road: China's double standard, Indian Defence Review, 4 April 2015. "View of the nalla" image. http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/demchok-and-the-new-silk-road-chinas-double-standard/
Lange, Decoding Mid-19th Century Maps of the Border Area (2017), p. 353: 'At present officially located in India, the village of Demchok marked the border between Tibet and Ladakh for a long time. Abdul Wahid Radhu, a former representative of the Lopchak caravan, described Demchok in his travel account as "the first location on the Tibetan side of the border".' - Lange, Diana (2017), "Decoding Mid-19th Century Maps of the Border Area between Western Tibet, Ladakh, and Spiti", Revue d'Études Tibétaines,The Spiti Valley Recovering the Past and Exploring the Present https://www.academia.edu/34449052
Report of the Officials, Indian Report, Part 3 (1962), pp. 3–4: According to a report by the governor of Ladakh in 1904–05, "I visited Demchok on the boundary with Lhasa. ... A nullah falls into the Indus river from the south-west and it (Demchok) is situated at the junction of the river. Across is the boundary of Lhasa, where there are 8 to 9 huts of the Lhasa zamindars. On this side there are only two zamindars." - Part 3 (PDF) https://www.archieve.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/OR_Part_3.pdf
Bhattacharji, Ladakh (2012), Chapter 9: "Changthang: The High Plateau". - Bhattacharji, Romesh (2012), Ladakh: Changing, Yet Unchanged, New Delhi: Rupa Publications – via Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/3575075
India, China admit to intrusion by Chinese herdsmen, Gulf News, 28 July 2014. https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/india-china-admit-to-intrusion-by-chinese-herdsmen-1.1364915
Mehra, Parshotam (1989), Negotiating with the Chinese, 1846-1987: Problems and Perspectives, with an Epilogue, Reliance Publishing House, p. 225, ISBN 978-81-85047-46-1: "[The claim line] crosses the Shangatsangpu (Indus River) at 33 degrees north Latitude, runs along the watershed east of the Koyul Lungpa River and South of the Hanle River up to Mount Shinowu..." 978-81-85047-46-1
"中国对印战略:装甲集团沿三线突击两日可抵新德里" (in Chinese). Sina News. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2020. 西线巴里加斯印度控制450平方公里(我军曾对部分地区前出巡逻设防),主要位于狮泉河、典角村以西和班公湖西段。[West of the Line, India controls 450 square kilometers of Parigas (our army used to patrol and defend some areas), mainly located in Shiquan River, west of Dêmqog Village and west of Pangong Lake.] http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/jssd/2017-08-25/doc-ifykkfas7750531.shtml
"印度防长:要让巴付出代价 已炮击2万发炮弹" (in Chinese). Hunan Daily. 10 October 2014. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2020. 巴里加斯(Parigas),是中国和印度西部边境中的一块争议领土,面积约1900平方公里,包括基古纳鲁河、乌木隆、碟木绰克(Demchok), 果洛等地区。[...] 巴里加斯中国固有领土,位于西藏阿里噶尔县西北 [Bālǐ jiā sī (Parigas) is a disputed territory on the western border between China and India. It covers an area of approximately 1,900 square kilometers, including areas such as the Kigunaru River, Umlung, diǎn jiǎo (Demchok), Guoluo, and other areas. [...] Parigas, China's inherent territory, is located in the northwest of Gar County in Tibet.] https://web.archive.org/web/20200724130325/http://news.voc.com.cn/article/201410/20141010095109443_2.html
During discussions in the 1960s, the Chinese government called the Indian village "Parigas" and the Chinese village "Demchok":
Report of the Officials, Indian Report, Part 1 (1962). Chinese officials state: "Parigas was part of the Demchok area. West of Demchok, after crossing the Chopu river, one arrived at Parigas."
India. Ministry of External Affairs, ed. (1966), Notes, Memoranda and Letters Exchanged and Agreements Signed Between the Governments of India and China: January 1965 - February 1966, White Paper No. XII (PDF), Ministry of External Affairs – via claudearpi.net: "In fact, it was Indian troops who on September 18, intruded into the vicinity of the Demchok village on the Chinese side of the 'line of actual control' after crossing the Demchok River from Parigas..."
- Part 1 (PDF) https://www.archieve.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/OR_Part_1.pdf
"典角村,固有領土的見證,如今,600米外駐紮印軍" (in Chinese). Headline Daily. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020. 1955年,進一步蠶食巴里加斯地區,如今,印度控制巴里加斯西南角即獅泉河(森格藏布)與卓普河(典角曲)以西大約450平方公里 [In 1955, the Indian army further encroached on the Parigas district. Today, India controls about 450 square kilometers west of the Shiquan River (Sengge Zangbo) and the Zhuopu River (Dêmqog Village) in the southwest corner of Parigas] https://kknews.cc/military/n2br363.html
Fang, Jianchang (17 June 2020). "房建昌:近代中印西段边界史略". Sohu (in Chinese). Retrieved 8 August 2020. 其中除了一块很小的巴里加斯(Parigas)地区在本世纪50年代中期被印度侵占以外,其余地区始终在我控制之下,由西藏的日土县(1960年前为宗)管辖。[Except for the small 巴里加斯 (Parigas) area which was invaded by India in the mid-1950s, the rest of the area was always under China's control and under the jurisdiction of Tibet's (pre-1960) Rutog County.] https://www.sohu.com/a/402325119_523187
Tibetmap 3279, July 2009, retrieved 18 May 2022. http://www.tibetmap.com/3279o150.jpg
Ngari Prefecture, KNAB Place Name Database, retrieved 18 May 2022. https://www.eki.ee/knab/valik/cn54ng.htm
Silungle is located at 32°46′05″N 79°21′32″E / 32.768°N 79.359°E / 32.768; 79.359 on the bank of the Silung stream that joins the Indus river from the left. It is conventional in the Ladakhi language to name camp sites on the streams they are situated on. https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Demchok_sector¶ms=32.768_N_79.359_E_
"中国对印战略:装甲集团沿三线突击两日可抵新德里" (in Chinese). Sina News. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2020. 西线巴里加斯印度控制450平方公里(我军曾对部分地区前出巡逻设防),主要位于狮泉河、典角村以西和班公湖西段。[West of the Line, India controls 450 square kilometers of Parigas (our army used to patrol and defend some areas), mainly located in Shiquan River, west of Dêmqog Village and west of Pangong Lake.] http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/jssd/2017-08-25/doc-ifykkfas7750531.shtml
"印度防长:要让巴付出代价 已炮击2万发炮弹" (in Chinese). Hunan Daily. 10 October 2014. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2020. 巴里加斯(Parigas),是中国和印度西部边境中的一块争议领土,面积约1900平方公里,包括基古纳鲁河、乌木隆、碟木绰克(Demchok), 果洛等地区。[...] 巴里加斯中国固有领土,位于西藏阿里噶尔县西北 [Bālǐ jiā sī (Parigas) is a disputed territory on the western border between China and India. It covers an area of approximately 1,900 square kilometers, including areas such as the Kigunaru River, Umlung, diǎn jiǎo (Demchok), Guoluo, and other areas. [...] Parigas, China's inherent territory, is located in the northwest of Gar County in Tibet.] https://web.archive.org/web/20200724130325/http://news.voc.com.cn/article/201410/20141010095109443_2.html
"典角村,固有領土的見證,如今,600米外駐紮印軍" (in Chinese). Headline Daily. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020. 1955年,進一步蠶食巴里加斯地區,如今,印度控制巴里加斯西南角即獅泉河(森格藏布)與卓普河(典角曲)以西大約450平方公里 [In 1955, the Indian army further encroached on the Parigas district. Today, India controls about 450 square kilometers west of the Shiquan River (Sengge Zangbo) and the Zhuopu River (Dêmqog Village) in the southwest corner of Parigas] https://kknews.cc/military/n2br363.html
Fisher, Rose & Huttenback, Himalayan Battleground (1963), p. 19. - Fisher, Margaret W.; Rose, Leo E.; Huttenback, Robert A. (1963), Himalayan Battleground: Sino-Indian Rivalry in Ladakh, Praeger – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/himalayanbattleg0000unse/mode/2up
Howard & Howard, Historic Ruins in the Gya Valley (2014), p. 83. - Howard, Neil; Howard, Kath (2014), "Historic Ruins in the Gya Valley, Eastern Ladakh, and a Consideration of Their Relationship to the History of Ladakh and Maryul", in Lo Bue, Erberto; Bray, John (eds.), Art and Architecture in Ladakh: Cross-cultural Transmissions in the Himalayas and Karakoram, BRILL, pp. 68–99, ISBN 9789004271807 https://books.google.com/books?id=CJCfAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA68
Francke, Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part (Volume) II (1926), p. 94. - Francke, August Hermann (1926), Thomas, F. W. (ed.), Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part (Volume) II
Jinpa, Why did Tibet and Ladakh Clash? (2015), pp. 115–116. - Jinpa, Nawang (Autumn–Winter 2015), "Why Did Tibet and Ladakh Clash in the 17th Century? – Rethinking the Background to the 'Mongol War' in Ngari (1679-1684)", The Tibet Journal, 40 (2): 113–150, JSTOR tibetjournal.40.2.113 https://www.jstor.org/stable/tibetjournal.40.2.113
Jinpa, Why did Tibet and Ladakh Clash? (2015), pp. 134–135. - Jinpa, Nawang (Autumn–Winter 2015), "Why Did Tibet and Ladakh Clash in the 17th Century? – Rethinking the Background to the 'Mongol War' in Ngari (1679-1684)", The Tibet Journal, 40 (2): 113–150, JSTOR tibetjournal.40.2.113 https://www.jstor.org/stable/tibetjournal.40.2.113
Sinha, Nirmal C. (1967), "Demchok (Notes and topics)" (PDF), Bulletin of Tibetology, 4: 23–24 /wiki/Nirmal_C._Sinha
* Francke, Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part (Volume) II (1926, pp. 115–116): "Regarding Mnah-ris-skor-gsum Mi-pham-dban-po's stipulations were to this effect :— [...] With this exception the boundary shall be fixed at the Lha-ri stream at Bde-mchog."
Fisher, Rose & Huttenback, Himalayan Battleground (1963): "... the border between Ladakh and Tibet was fixed at the Lha-ri stream, which flows into the Indus five miles southeast of Demchok."
Petech, The Kingdom of Ladakh (1977, p. 78): "With this exception [of Men-ser], the frontier was fixed at the Lha-ri stream near bDe-mc'og."
Ahmad, New Light on the Tibet-Ladakh-Mughal War (1968, p. 351): "Now, in 1684, the government of Tibet, headed by the sDe-pa Sans-rGyas rGya-mTsho, annexed Gu-ge to Tibet, and fixed the frontier between Ladakh and Tibet at the lHa-ri stream at bDe-mChog."
Bray, The Lapchak Mission (1990, p. 77): "The boundary between Ladakh and Tibet was to be established at the Lha-ri stream in Demchog..."
Emmer, the Tibet-Ladakh-Mughal War (2007, pp. 99–100): "The frontier with Tibet was fixed at the Lha ri stream at Bde mchog (Demchok), approximately at that places where it is even today."
Handa, Buddhist Western Himalaya (2001, p. 160): "The hill of Lahri [Lhari] that stands near Demchok was fixed as the boundary between Lhasa and Ladakh."
- Francke, August Hermann (1926), Thomas, F. W. (ed.), Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Part (Volume) II
Lamb, Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector 1965, pp. 37, 38, 40:
"No text of this agreement between Tibet and Ladakh survives, but there are references to it in chronicles"
"There can be no doubt that the 1684 (or 1683) agreement between Ladakh and the authorities then controlling Tibet did in fact take place. Unfortunately, no original text of it has survived and its terms can only be deduced. In its surviving form there seems to be a reference to a boundary point at 'the Lhari stream at Demchok', a stream which would appear to flow into the Indus at Demchok and divide that village into two halves."
"The treaty that could have given this information, that of 1684, has not survived in the form of its full text, and we have no means of determining exactly what line of frontier was contemplated in 1684. The chronicles which refer to this treaty are singularly deficient in precise geographical details."
- Lamb, Alastair (1965), "Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute" (PDF), The Australian Year Book of International Law: 37–52 http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUYrBkIntLaw/1965/4.pdf
Woodman, Himalayan Frontiers (1969), pp. 42–43. - Woodman, Dorothy (1969), Himalayan Frontiers: A Political Review of British, Chinese, Indian, and Russian Rivalries, Praeger – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/himalayanfrontie00wood
Cunningham, Ladak (1854), p. 328. - Cunningham, Alexander (1854), Ladak: Physical, Statistical, Historical, London: Wm. H. Allen and Co – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/ladakphysicalsta00cunnrich
Fisher, Rose & Huttenback, Himalayan Battleground (1963), p. 55–56. - Fisher, Margaret W.; Rose, Leo E.; Huttenback, Robert A. (1963), Himalayan Battleground: Sino-Indian Rivalry in Ladakh, Praeger – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/himalayanbattleg0000unse/mode/2up
Lamb, The China-India border (1964), p. 64. - Lamb, Alastair (1964), The China-India border, Oxford University Press – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse
Agnew and Cunningham were assisted by Henry Strachey, who later became a notable explorer in his own right. Agnew and Cunningham were told to "bear in mind that, it is not a strip more or less of barren or even productive territory that we want, but a clear and well defined boundary in
a quarter likely to come little under observation".[27] /wiki/Henry_Strachey_(explorer)
Lamb, The China-India border (1964), pp. 64–66. - Lamb, Alastair (1964), The China-India border, Oxford University Press – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse
Lamb, The China-India border (1964), p. 68. - Lamb, Alastair (1964), The China-India border, Oxford University Press – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse
Lamb, The China-India border (1964), p. 68. - Lamb, Alastair (1964), The China-India border, Oxford University Press – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse
Maxwell, India's China War 1970, map opposite p. 40. - Maxwell, Neville (1970), India's China War, Pantheon Books, ISBN 978-0-394-47051-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=csbHAAAAIAAJ
Lamb, The China-India border (1964), p. 67. - Lamb, Alastair (1964), The China-India border, Oxford University Press – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse
Cunningham remarked: "In laying down a boundary through mountainous country it appeared to the Commissioners desirable to select such a plan as would completely preclude any possibility of further dispute. This the Commissioners believe they have found in their adoption as a boundary of such mountain ranges as form water-shed lines between the drainages of different rivers."[31]
Lamb, Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector (1965), p. 47The first good set of maps of Kashmir, though still very defective in the Aksai region, were Photozincographed Sections of part of, the Survey of Kashmir, Ladak, and Baltistan or Little Tibet, 20 sheets, 8 miles to the inch, published by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Dehra Dun, October 1868. - Lamb, Alastair (1965), "Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute" (PDF), The Australian Year Book of International Law: 37–52 http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUYrBkIntLaw/1965/4.pdf
Lamb, The China-India border (1964), p. 43: "The Kashmir Survey which officially completed its task in November 1864.2 [...] The results of the Kashmir Survey were published as an Atlas in 1868, and they give a good indication of the Ladakh-Tibet boundary over some of its length.3[Footnotes:]2Strachey's map, in two sheets at 8 miles to the inch, can be seen in the Map Rooms of the Royal Geographical Society and the India Office Library. It has been reproduced, much reduced, in Atlas, maps 11 & 12.3Photozincographed Sections of part of the Survey of Kashmir, Ladak and Baltistan or Little Tibet, Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Dehra Dun, Oct. 1868; 20 sheets at a scale of 16 miles to the inch (1.0. Map Room, cat. no. F/IV/r6)" - Lamb, Alastair (1964), The China-India border, Oxford University Press – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse
Karackattu, Joe Thomas (2018). "India–China Border Dispute: Boundary-Making and Shaping of Material Realities from the Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 28 (1): 135–159. doi:10.1017/S1356186317000281. ISSN 1356-1863. S2CID 159705672. One of the earliest official delimitations of the northern frontiers of India appears in photozincographed sections of part of the survey of Kashmir, Ladak and Baltistan or Little Tibet showing the "Boundary of His Highness the Maharajah of Kashmir" (8 miles to 1 inch, Dehradoon, October 1868). https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1356186317000281/type/journal_article
Lamb, The China-India border (1964), pp. 72–73. - Lamb, Alastair (1964), The China-India border, Oxford University Press – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse
While describing the travels of pundit explorers under his employ, Montgomerie writes, "Here they waited for the 3rd Pundit, who joined them on the 29th of September, after having traced the Indus down to Demchok, in Ladak." (emphasis added.)[36] He also notes that the coordinates of Demchok were fixed during the regular survey operations in Ladakh.[37] /wiki/Pundit_(explorer)
Rao, The India-China Border (1968):
p.24: "But such an evaluation was seldom done and although most officials traced the boundary correctly along the watershed range running parallel to the river Indus, gross blunders were committed regarding the alignment in the Pangong and Demchok areas. This was apparently due to the unfamiliarity of some of the British officials with the traditional and treaty basis of the boundary and to their mistaking local disputes such as pasture disputes with boundary disputes."
p.29: "The Kashmir Atlas boundary conflicts also with the first-hand evidence provided by the 1847 Commission. In regard to Demchok, it conflicts with well-established facts of history and with revenue records for the very period that the survey was conducted."
- Rao, Gondker Narayana (1968), The India-China Border: A Reappraisal, Asia Publishing House https://books.google.com/books?id=qFVuAAAAMAAJ
Bray, The Lapchak Mission (1990), p. 75: "Many of these relationships had their origin in the distant past, and the British at first understood their full significance imperfectly, or not at all." - Bray, John (Winter 1990), "The Lapchak Mission From Ladakh to Lhasa in British Indian Foreign Policy", The Tibet Journal, 15 (4): 75–96, JSTOR 43300375 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43300375
Also, the British felt Gulab Singh to be an "expansionist" and distrusted his pleadings.[38] /wiki/Gulab_Singh
Lamb, The China-India border (1964), p. 173. - Lamb, Alastair (1964), The China-India border, Oxford University Press – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse
In 1875, Frederic Drew published his now-seminal Jammoo and Kashmir Territories in 1875 while the text of the Ladakh Chronicles, first discovered by Cunningham in 1847, was published by missionary Karl Marx between 1891 and 1902.[41][42] /wiki/Frederic_Drew
Lamb, Alastair (1965). "Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute" (PDF). The Australian Year Book of International Law. 1 (1): 37–52. doi:10.1163/26660229-001-01-900000005. S2CID 229946392. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUYrBkIntLaw/1965/4.pdf
See Atlas of the Northern Frontier of India, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, Maps 3 and, 6. https://www.claudearpi.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Atlas-of-the-Northern-Borders-of-India-Part-1.pdf
Claude Arpi narrates the description of a murder inquiry in 1939, conducted by the British Trade Agent in Gartok and the governor of Ladakh (wazir-e-wazarat) jointly with the Tibetan officials (garpons). The Indian officials travelled from Leh to Demchok for this purpose, where they camped at the Lhari stream, described as "a natural boundary between Tibet and Kashmir at Demchok".[45] /wiki/Claude_Arpi
Lamb, Tibet, China & India (1989), p. 360. - Lamb, Alastair (1989), Tibet, China & India, 1914-1950: a history of imperial diplomacy, Roxford Books, ISBN 9780907129035 https://books.google.com/books?id=Nm5wAAAAMAAJ
Lamb, Alastair (1965). "Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute" (PDF). The Australian Year Book of International Law. 1 (1): 37–52. doi:10.1163/26660229-001-01-900000005. S2CID 229946392. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUYrBkIntLaw/1965/4.pdf
Lamb, Alastair (1965). "Treaties, Maps and the Western Sector of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute" (PDF). The Australian Year Book of International Law. 1 (1): 37–52. doi:10.1163/26660229-001-01-900000005. S2CID 229946392. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUYrBkIntLaw/1965/4.pdf
van Eekelen, Willem Frederik (1964). Indian Foreign Policy and the Border Dispute with China. Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-94-015-0715-8. ISBN 978-94-015-0715-8. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) 978-94-015-0715-8
Cheema, Crimson Chinar (2015), p. 190. - Cheema, Brig Amar (2015), The Crimson Chinar: The Kashmir Conflict: A Politico Military Perspective, Lancer Publishers, pp. 51–, ISBN 978-81-7062-301-4 https://books.google.com/books?id=Qc25BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51
Claude Arpi, The Case of Demchok, Indian Defence Review, 19 May 2017. http://www.indiandefencereview.com/spotlights/the-case-of-demchok/
Fisher, Rose & Huttenback, Himalayan Battleground (1963), pp. 106–107. - Fisher, Margaret W.; Rose, Leo E.; Huttenback, Robert A. (1963), Himalayan Battleground: Sino-Indian Rivalry in Ladakh, Praeger – via archive.org https://archive.org/details/himalayanbattleg0000unse/mode/2up
Scholars translate the Tibetan term lha-ri as "soul mountain". Many peaks in Tibet are named lhari including a "Demchok lhari" in the northern suburbs of Lhasa.[51]
Puri, Luv (2 August 2005). "Ladakhis await re-opening of historic Tibet route". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2020. Administrative record books show that it has a population of 150 people living in 24 houses, all having solar-powered lights. The village itself was divided into two parts one held by India and the other by China after the 1962 Sino-Indian war, though there is not a single divided family. On the Chinese side one can spot two houses and the road seems to be in a poor condition. https://web.archive.org/web/20131224113353/http://www.hindu.com/2005/08/02/stories/2005080212731300.htm
Arpi, Claude (19 May 2017). "The Case of Demchok". Indian Defence Review. Retrieved 19 July 2020. The talks were held in Beijing between Zhang Hanfu, China's Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, N. Raghavan, the Indian Ambassador to China and T.N. Kaul, his Chargé d'Affaires and Chen Chai-Kang, a Director. They lasted from December 1953 till end of April 1954. [...] Kaul objected, Demchok was in India, he told Chen who answered that India's border was further on the West of the Indus. On Kaul's insistence Chen said "There can be no doubt about actual physical possession which can be verified on spot but to avoid any dispute we may omit mention of Demchok". [...] In October 1962, the Demchok sub-sector was held by the 7 J&K Militia. The PLA launched an attack on October 22. [...] The PLA eventually withdrew, but occupied the southern part of Demchok. /wiki/Claude_Arpi
Puri, Luv (2 August 2005). "Ladakhis await re-opening of historic Tibet route". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2020. Administrative record books show that it has a population of 150 people living in 24 houses, all having solar-powered lights. The village itself was divided into two parts one held by India and the other by China after the 1962 Sino-Indian war, though there is not a single divided family. On the Chinese side one can spot two houses and the road seems to be in a poor condition. https://web.archive.org/web/20131224113353/http://www.hindu.com/2005/08/02/stories/2005080212731300.htm
A selection of sources that state that the Demchok sector is administered by China:"Jammu & Kashmir". European Foundation for South Asian Studies. Retrieved 15 May 2020.Snow, Shawn (19 September 2016). "Analysis: Why Kashmir Matters". The Diplomat. Retrieved 15 May 2020.Ruiz Estrada, Mario Arturo; Koutronas, Evangelos; Khan, Alam; Angathevar, Baskaran (2018). "Economic Dynamics of Territorial Military Conflicts: The Case of Kashmir". Journal of Strategic Studies. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3102745. ISSN 1556-5068. S2CID 133523552.A selection of sources that state that the Demchok sector is administered by India:Tamkin, Emily; Karklis, Laris; Meko, Tim (28 February 2019). "The Trouble with Kashmir". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 May 2020. https://www.efsas.org/topics/jammu-and-kashmir.html