Shaukas

The Shauka people, also known as Rangkas (pronunciation) and Johari, are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group living in the Johar Valley of Gori Ganga river in Munsyari, tehsil of the Pithoragarh District in Uttarakhand, India.^[1] Shaukas are a part of Bhotiya community and were historically involved in trade between India and Tibet. Contemporarily, they are engaged in occupations like agriculture, trade, and animal husbandry. They currently speak the Johari, a dialect of Kumaoni,^[2] and spoke Rangas, a now-extinct, Tibeto-Berman language in the past. They do trade with Tibet in the place called Gyanima mandi. After the indo china war 1962 the trade is blocked because china took control over Tibet in 1959. But after the war the trade is done through lipu lekh pass for better relations between two countries but it was again stopped in 2020 after the covid 19

Notable people

• Surendra Singh Pangtey
• Nain singh rawat

See also

• Bhotia

Further reading

• "Zu einer Zeit, als Bäume und Gräser noch sprechen konnten...". Sozioökonomie, Kosmologie und Mythologie der Rang-Shauka im zentralindischen Himalaya (Taschenbuch) von Sabine Leder
• History of the Origin of Shauka Tribe of Middle Himalayas, by Negi Girdhar Singh, Dept. of History, Kumaon University, Nainital. 2006. Lucknow Journal of Social Sciences. 2006, Volume 3, Issue 2. ISSN 0974-8148.

References

• Travelogue - Munsyari, Of Shaukas, Salt Route and Snow Peaks