Talk:Demchok (historical village)

Latest comment: 4 years ago by MarkH21 in topic Lead rewritten

Lead rewritten

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I rewrote the lead to remove the POV and OR present in it.

  • "Demchok was a historical village". There is no source that says such a thing. Demchok still exists. And it is still as divided as it was.
  • It wasn't mentioned in the 1684 treaty. We have no idea whether "Demchok" mentioned there was a village, whether it was divided or undivided. Rather it was the Lhari stream which was of importance in the treaty.
  • Nor did anybody say that it was the first time it was mentioned.

-- Kautilya3 (talk) 23:31, 23 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Okay with the first and last point, which were just to make it clear what the scope of the article is and what the first known mention is (as a summary of the contents of the article rather than a directly cited assertion). On the second point, Demchok was certainly mentioned in the Ladakh Chronicles on the Treaty of Tingmosgang; for instance, Lamb wrote

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.
— Alastair Lamb, Treaties, Maps, and the Western Sector of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute, page 38.

MarkH21talk 04:59, 24 July 2020 (UTC)Reply