Chaglagam is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous

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Anjaw district Anjaw District (Pron:/ˈændʒɔ:/) is an administrative district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in north-east India. It was created as a district in 2004, by splitting off from the Lohit district under the Arunachal Pradesh Re-organization o ...

in India's north-eastern state of

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.2011 Census of India: Chaglagam
/ref> It is on the bank of the Delei River. The Chaglagam Circle contains the upper basin of the Delei River, on the border Zayul County of China's

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. It has a population of 1,681 people, distributed in 18 villages, as per the 2011 census.Anjaw District Census Handbook, Part A
Census of India, 2012, p. 20. The population consists of primarily

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Geography

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Chaglagam is situated on the bank of the Delei River, which is a substantial tributary of the

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. The Delei rises below the Glei Pass on the border with Tibet, and flows through the Chaglagam Circle along with its numerous tributaries (Duren, Kajap, Kazumiyo, Kalangmiyo etc.). It joins the Lohit River near

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Anjaw District website, retrieved 5 July 2021. Hayuliang is the nearest town to Chaglagam. It is also the headquarters of the Hayuliang Subdivision, which includes Chaglagam. The Chaglagam Circle borders the Zayul County of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The people of Chaglagam traditionally participated in Indo-Tibetan trade between Assam and Zayul, acting as middlemen. They travelled to Zayul via the Glei Pass, which is called Dri La by the Tibetans, leading to the village of Dri in the western Zayul valley. It was said to take 5 days march to Glei Pass from

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in Tibet and another 20 days to reach

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in Assam. Another pass called Hadigra, to the west of Glei Pass, was also used, but less often. Confidential note of the Chief of General Staff in 1912, reproduced in To the northwest of the Chaglagam Circle is an anomalous jut-in of Tibetan territory called Fishtail-II, a relic of inadequate surveying in the 1914 McMahon Line map. The region is patrolled by both Indian and Chinese troops and occasional stand-offs are reported.

Chinese incursions

In August 2013, China's

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troops intruded 20 to 30 km inside the Indian territory and stayed there for 4 days before going back. India's

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(ITBF) patrols the area.

Transportation

Chaglagam is located on the proposed Mago-

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to Vijaynagar Arunachal Pradesh Frontier Highway along the McMahon Line, alignment map of which can be see
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Demographics

As per the 2011 Census of India, Chaglagam has 192 residents across 29 households. 155 are male, and 37 are female.

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External links

Chaglagam Circle
OpenStreetMap, retrieved 2 December 2021. {{Minority Concentrated Districts in India Villages in Anjaw district Borders of Arunachal Pradesh