Does anyone have any information on the Bhutanese enclaves in Tibet? Is
there any map showing them at all?
The information I have so far:
Several villages and monatries in the vicinity of Mt Kailash and Gartok in
W. Tibet were given by a Ladakhi ruler to a Bhutanese llama called Ngava
Namgyal in the 18th century. China seized the enclaves in July 1960 after a
dispute dating from 1957.
Administered from Tarchen, the enclaves were:
Tarchen, Nyanri, Zuthulphuk, Cherkip Gompa, Dungmar, Ringung, Dho, Khochar,
Gezon, Itse Gompa, Gonphu, GesuR and Sanmar.
This is from Dutt, Srikant, "Bhutan's International Position" pp 601-623,
International Studies, 20(4) 1981, (an Indian journal from Jawarharlal
Nehru University) with the enclave info on p610 inc fn41
There is a reference in this for further info to Swami Pranavananda,
"Kailas-Mana Sa Rovar", Calcutta, 1949.
Does anyone know of the Swami's work, and if it is in English?
Secondly, have Bhutan and China demarcated/delineated their border at all?
Or is the reticence to do this due to the Chinese claims to parts of Assam
and Sikkim, which render Indo-Bhutan-Chinese tripoints impossible to agree on?
Brendan Whyte
University of Melbourne
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