The Rang community (also spelled 'Rung' community) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group dwelling historically in the upper parts of the Johar valley, Darma valley, and Mahakali valley in India and Nepal. Some of them live in the Chameylia valley of Nepal. In Nepal and in the Johar valley of India, they are also known as the Shauka; the Rungbas of the Mahakali and Darma valleys are called 'Shauka'.The Darma Valley has fourteen villages Filam, Go, Dhakar, Tidang, Sela, Chal, Nagling, Baling, Dugtu, Dantu, Saun, Baun, Marccha, and Sipu.
Languages
editThe Rang community speaks three kinds of Tibeto-Burman languages - Vyansi, Chaudangsi and Darma.[1]
Livelihoods
editHistoric
editRung community are the descendants of GugeTsaparang locally spelled as GugeChabrang. Zhangzhung is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language that was spoken in Zhangzhung in what is now western Tibet. Because of indigenous tribe with no language script they didn't even know exactly where they came from.
The Rung community traditionally practices transhumance.[2] The community is listed as indigenous tribe in India and Nepal.[3] Historically, the Rung community had Trans-Himalayan trade ties with partner traders in western Tibet. Their traditional lifestyle included annual cycles of transhumance between lower, winter settlements, and upper, summer settlements higher up in the tributary valleys of the Mahakali river. During these cycles of transhumance, some of them would continue further north with merchandise to trade in the seasonal trade marts of western Tibet, laden on long lines of goats and sheep. Some would stay back in the upper villages, practising agriculture. A few others would practice nomadic pastoralism. However, following the Sino-Indian War of 1962, the Trans-Himalayan trade came to an abrupt halt.
Since 1990s
editThe trade with Tibet was resumed in the 1990s under more state-regulated conditions and regulations. Pastoralism declined over the decades in significance too, as a means of livelihood among the Rung. These old livelihoods were to a significant degree replaced by medicinal herb collecting, and migrating to towns and cities for education and to look for jobs.[4][5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Willis, C. M. (2007, November). Documenting One Language in a Multi-Lingual Community. In Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 487-498).
- ^ Wallrapp, Corinna; Keck, Markus; Faust, Heiko (17 April 2019). "Governing the yarshagumba 'gold rush': A comparative study of governance systems in the Kailash Landscape in India and Nepal". International Journal of the Commons. 13 (1): 455. doi:10.18352/ijc.884.
- ^ Wallrapp, Corinna Angela Monika (2019). Governance Systems of Yarshagumba Collection and Trade in the Border Region of India, Nepal and China. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
- ^ Pandey, Abhimanyu; Pradhan, Nawraj; Chaudhari, Swapnil; Ghate, Rucha (2017-01-02). "Withering of traditional institutions? An institutional analysis of the decline of migratory pastoralism in the rangelands of the Kailash Sacred Landscape, western Himalayas". Environmental Sociology. 3 (1): 87–100. doi:10.1080/23251042.2016.1272179.
- ^ Wallrapp, Corinna; Keck, Markus; Faust, Heiko (2019-04-17). "Governing the yarshagumba 'gold rush': A comparative study of governance systems in the Kailash Landscape in India and Nepal". International Journal of the Commons. 13 (1): 455–478. doi:10.18352/ijc.884. ISSN 1875-0281.
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