Dumchele

Dumchele[a] or Dhumtsele[5] (Chinese: 都木契列; pinyin: Dōu mù qì liè, Tibetan: སྡུམ་མཚེས་ལེ་, Wylie: sdum mtshes le, THL: dum tsé lé) is a village and a grazing area in the Skakjung pastureland near the Line of Actual Control between Ladakh and Tibet.

[10][9] In the 1962 war, China attacked the post and forced India to withdraw from the entire Kigunaru river basin.

At the present time, China maintains a border trading market at Dumchele and a military post nearby.

The present Dumchele village is on the bank of a mid-sized lake, which is apparently fed by a strand of the Kigunaru River (or Shingong Lungpa).

[6] Moorcroft's associate, George Trebeck, visited the area in early 19th century, travelling south on the right bank of Indus.

[c] The area was studded with small ponds and lakes, and a rivulet crossed the Indus bed (Kigunaru river, also called Xingong Lungpa), getting divided by an island.

[16][17] The border of Ladakh was described to Trebeck as running from "the angle of a hill about five miles to the east" to the low pass of La Ganskiel (the "Lagankhel" of later maps).

[18] Scholar Janet Rizvi confirms that traders often travelled with donkeys via Chang La to Rudok and returned with salt and wool.

[24] The Line of Actual Control resulting from the war runs between Dumchele and the smaller lake of Tsoskur to the west.

During and following the Indo-Pakistan war of 1965, the Dumchele area saw some action mainly in the form of the Indian and Chinese governments exchanging notes blaming each other for intruding into their territory.

[25][26] Near Tsoskur, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of Dumchele, three Indian armed personnel were killed by PLA troops on 19 September 1965.

[30] Tsaskur, alternately spelled as Tsoskur, is an Indian administered campsite located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south west of Dumchele.

The disputed Demchok sector between China and India: the Chinese claim line on the west, the Indian claim line on the east and the Line of Actual Control in the middle.
The northern part of Demchok sector drawn by US Army Map Service, 1954
Frederec Drew's map of the Demchok sector, 1875