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	'''Diamer District''' is one of the seven ]s of the ] of ]. It is the district in which the ] enters that territory from the ], the capital of the district is ]. In 2004, Diamer District was bifurcated and the district of ] was created from Diamer's easternmost tehsil.

			'''Diamer District''' ({{langx\|ur\|{{nq\|ضلع دیامر}}}}), also spelled '''Diamir District''',<ref>Guide to Standard Floras of the World: An Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas 2, revised: David G. Frodin Published by Cambridge University Press, 2001, Page R79</ref><ref>Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan: Nyla Ali Khan Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, Page 9</ref>) is a district in the ] region administered by ]. The headquarters of the district is the town of ]. The district is bounded on the north by the ] and the ] districts, on the east by the ], on the south by the ] of Pakistan's ] and the ] of ], and on the west by the ] of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The ] passes through Diamer District.
	Diamer District is bounded by ] in the east, by the ] in the southwest (separated by the ] or ]), ] of ] in the south, the ] in the north and northwest, and the ] in the north and northeast.

			==History==
	Before the ] was opened in 1978, the only road reaching ] town from the south was a rough track north from ] to ] (via ], ], ], and ]) and further north through ] to ]. The road up to ] is now in better condition, but from ] to ], the road is still a rough track.

			=== Ancient India ===
			Thalpan, located opposite to the Chilas town, bears the most abundant collection of rock-art in Pakistan — the Pakistan-German Archaeological Mission has published about them in six dedicated volumes and traced them to Greco-Buddhist antiquity.<ref>{{Cite journal \|last=Zahir \|first=Muhammad \|title=Discovery and Contextualization of a Possible Buddhist Monastic Complex at Thalpan, District Diamer, Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan \|journal=Gandhāran Studies \|volume=13 \|pages=37–59}}</ref>{{Efn\|The proposed construction of Basha-Diamer Dam is expected to inundate over 37,000 carvings.}} Buddhist Stupas and anthropomorphic Buddhas remain the most common subject of rock-carvings in and around Chilas.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=van Aerde \|first=Marike \|title=Routes Beyond Gandhara: Buddhist Rock Carvings in the Context of the Early Silk Roads \|date=2019 \|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7_20 \|work=Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road \|pages=455–480 \|editor-last=Yang \|editor-first=Liang Emlyn \|place=Cham \|publisher=Springer International Publishing \|language=en \|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7_20 \|isbn=978-3-030-00728-7 \|access-date=2022-05-16 \|editor2-last=Bork \|editor2-first=Hans-Rudolf \|editor3-last=Fang \|editor3-first=Xiuqi \|editor4-last=Mischke \|editor4-first=Steffen\|doi-access=free \|hdl=1887/83304 \|hdl-access=free }}</ref>

			] suggests that Chilas might have had been a Buddhist sanctuary while ] hypothesizes Thalpan to be the "Talilo" of Chinese sources; however, in absence of excavations, such claims remain in the realm of speculations.<ref name=":1" />

			=== British India ===
			During the ], the area was known as '''Chilas''' and regarded as a tribal area, a subsidiary of the princely state of ].<ref name="Snedden">
			{{citation \|last=Snedden \|first=Christopher \|title=Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s5KMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 \|year=2015 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|isbn=978-1-84904-342-7 \|pages=117–118}}
			</ref><ref>
			{{citation \|title=Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak \|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43256 \|via=archive.org \|publisher=Superintendent of Government Printing \|location=Calcutta \|year=1890 \|page=11}}
			</ref> Its original name was apparently {{lang\|sa\|Shiltās}}.<ref>
			{{citation \|last=Stein \|first=M. A. \|title=Kalhana's Rajatarangini: A chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, Volume 2. \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzxTkI9iAxkC&pg=PA363 \|date=1989 \|origyear=first published 1900 \|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. \|isbn=978-81-208-0370-1 \|page=363}}
			</ref>

			The region was brought under the control of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir in 1851, and an agent of the Kashmir durbar was stationed there.{{sfn\|Chohan\|1997\|p=118}} In 1893, Chilas was taken over by the British-run ].{{sfn\|Chohan\|1997\|pp=127, 189}} An Assistant Political Agent of the Agency was stationed in Chilas town.{{sfn\|Chohan\|1997\|p=215}}<ref>
			{{citation \|first=William \|last=Brown \|title=Gilgit Rebelion: The Major Who Mutinied Over Partition of India \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_l9tBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 \|year=2014 \|publisher=Pen and Sword \|isbn=9781473821873 \|page=53}}
			</ref> The ''Raja'' was soon deposed and Chilas functioned as a 'republican community' under the aegis of ''jirga'', a body of local landowning men.<ref>
			{{citation \|first=Yaqoob Khan \|last=Bangash \|title=Three Forgotten Accessions: Gilgit, Hunza and Nagar \|journal=The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History \|volume=38 \|number=1 \|year=2010 \|doi=10.1080/03086530903538269 \|page=122\|s2cid=159652497 }}
			</ref><ref name="Sokefeld">{{Cite journal \|last=Sökefeld \|first=Martin \|date=2014 \|title=Anthropology of Gilgit-Baltistan: Introduction \|url=https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/article/view/771 \|journal=Ethnoscripts \|language=de \|volume=16 \|issue=1 \|pages=11, 17 \|issn=2199-7942}}</ref>

			=== Pakistan ===
			Prior to 2019, the ] and the ] were part of the Diamer District. They were subsequently elevated to district status.<ref>{{cite web \|title=GB cabinet decides to upgrade Dareal, Tangir,Gupis Yasin and Roundu as districts \|url=http://www.radio.gov.pk/20-04-2019/gb-cabinet-decides-to-upgrade-dareal-tangirgupis-yasin-and-roundu-as-districts \|publisher=Radio Pakistan \|accessdate=19 June 2019 \|language=en \|date=20 April 2019 \|archive-date=19 June 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619154942/http://www.radio.gov.pk/20-04-2019/gb-cabinet-decides-to-upgrade-dareal-tangirgupis-yasin-and-roundu-as-districts \|url-status=dead }}</ref> The ''jirga'' continues to play a significant role in governance.<ref name="Sokefeld" />

			== Demographics ==
			Diamer is the only Sunni-majority district in Gilgit-Baltistan.

			== Transportation ==
			Before the ] was opened in 1978, the only road from the south to the town of ] was a rough track north from ] to the ] (via ], ], ], and ]) and further north from ] to ]. The road up to ] is better than it was previously, and the road from Besal to the ] is good, having been recently metaled.

	==See also==		==See also==
	{{Portal\|Pakistan}}		{{Portal\|Pakistan}}
	*]		*]

	==External links==
	{{Sister project links}}
	{{Expand section\|date=April 2010}}

			==Notes==
	{{Gilgit-Baltistan}}
			{{notelist}}

			==References==
	{{Coord missing\|Pakistan}}
			{{Reflist}}

			==Bibliography==
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			* {{citation \|last=Chohan \|first=Amar Singh \|title=Gilgit Agency 1877-1935 \|edition=Second Reprint \|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.242488 \|date=1997 \|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist \|isbn=978-81-7156-146-9 \|via=archive.org}}

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Latest revision as of 06:50, 26 October 2024

District of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan

Diamir District ضلع دیامر
District of Gilgit-Baltistan
Shanrgah Lake in Shatti Choi Valley

Country	Pakistan
Territory	Gilgit-Baltistan
Division	Diamer Division
Headquarters	Chilas
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	N/A
• District Police Officer	N/A
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• Total	10,936 km (4,222 sq mi)
Population
• Total	214,000
Number of tehsils	2

Diamer District (Urdu: ضلع دیامر), also spelled Diamir District,) is a district in the Gilgit-Baltistan region administered by Pakistan. The headquarters of the district is the town of Chilas. The district is bounded on the north by the Tangir and the Gilgit districts, on the east by the Astore District, on the south by the Mansehra district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and the Neelum District of Pakistan controlled Kashmir, and on the west by the Upper Kohistan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The Karakoram Highway passes through Diamer District.

History

Ancient India

Thalpan, located opposite to the Chilas town, bears the most abundant collection of rock-art in Pakistan — the Pakistan-German Archaeological Mission has published about them in six dedicated volumes and traced them to Greco-Buddhist antiquity. Buddhist Stupas and anthropomorphic Buddhas remain the most common subject of rock-carvings in and around Chilas.

Karl Jettmar suggests that Chilas might have had been a Buddhist sanctuary while Harald Hauptmann hypothesizes Thalpan to be the "Talilo" of Chinese sources; however, in absence of excavations, such claims remain in the realm of speculations.

British India

During the British Raj, the area was known as Chilas and regarded as a tribal area, a subsidiary of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Its original name was apparently Shiltās.

The region was brought under the control of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir in 1851, and an agent of the Kashmir durbar was stationed there. In 1893, Chilas was taken over by the British-run Gilgit Agency. An Assistant Political Agent of the Agency was stationed in Chilas town. The Raja was soon deposed and Chilas functioned as a 'republican community' under the aegis of jirga, a body of local landowning men.

Pakistan

Prior to 2019, the Darel District and the Tangir District were part of the Diamer District. They were subsequently elevated to district status. The jirga continues to play a significant role in governance.

Demographics

Diamer is the only Sunni-majority district in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Transportation

Before the Karakoram Highway was opened in 1978, the only road from the south to the town of Gilgit was a rough track north from Balakot to the Babusar Pass (via Kaghan, Naran, Besal, and Gittidas) and further north from Babusar Gah to Chilas. The road up to Besal is better than it was previously, and the road from Besal to the Babusar Pass is good, having been recently metaled.

Notes

The proposed construction of Basha-Diamer Dam is expected to inundate over 37,000 carvings.

References

Guide to Standard Floras of the World: An Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas 2, revised: David G. Frodin Published by Cambridge University Press, 2001, Page R79
Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan: Nyla Ali Khan Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, Page 9
Zahir, Muhammad. "Discovery and Contextualization of a Possible Buddhist Monastic Complex at Thalpan, District Diamer, Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Pakistan". Gandhāran Studies. 13: 37–59.
^ van Aerde, Marike (2019), Yang, Liang Emlyn; Bork, Hans-Rudolf; Fang, Xiuqi; Mischke, Steffen (eds.), "Routes Beyond Gandhara: Buddhist Rock Carvings in the Context of the Early Silk Roads", Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 455–480, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7_20, hdl:1887/83304, ISBN 978-3-030-00728-7, retrieved 2022-05-16
Snedden, Christopher (2015), Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris, Oxford University Press, pp. 117–118, ISBN 978-1-84904-342-7
Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1890, p. 11 – via archive.org
Stein, M. A. (1989) , Kalhana's Rajatarangini: A chronicle of the kings of Kashmir, Volume 2., Motilal Banarsidass Publ., p. 363, ISBN 978-81-208-0370-1
Chohan 1997, p. 118.
Chohan 1997, pp. 127, 189.
Chohan 1997, p. 215.
Brown, William (2014), Gilgit Rebelion: The Major Who Mutinied Over Partition of India, Pen and Sword, p. 53, ISBN 9781473821873
Bangash, Yaqoob Khan (2010), "Three Forgotten Accessions: Gilgit, Hunza and Nagar", The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38 (1): 122, doi:10.1080/03086530903538269, S2CID 159652497
^ Sökefeld, Martin (2014). "Anthropology of Gilgit-Baltistan: Introduction". Ethnoscripts (in German). 16 (1): 11, 17. ISSN 2199-7942.
"GB cabinet decides to upgrade Dareal, Tangir,Gupis Yasin and Roundu as districts". Radio Pakistan. 20 April 2019. Archived from the original on 19 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.

Bibliography

Chohan, Amar Singh (1997), Gilgit Agency 1877-1935 (Second Reprint ed.), Atlantic Publishers & Dist, ISBN 978-81-7156-146-9 – via archive.org

v t e Districts of Gilgit-Baltistan
Provincial capital: Gilgit
Baltistan	Ghanche Skardu Shigar Kharmang Roundu
Gilgit	Ghizer Gupis-Yasin Gilgit Hunza Nagar
Diamer	Astore Diamer Darel Tangir

v t e Gilgit-Baltistan topics
Capital: Gilgit
Passes	Babusar Pass Bichhar Pass Burji La Burzil Pass Chillinji Pass Darkot Pass Gondogoro Pass Hayal Pass Hispar Pass Khunjerab Pass
Valleys	Bagrot Valley Naltar Valley Astore Valley Nomal Valley Gilgit Valley Skardu Valley Khaplu Valley Kharmang Shigar Valley Roundu Baltistan Stak Valley Galtari
Cities and towns	(list) Gilgit Skardu Shigar Khaplu Kharmang Roundu Baltistan Danyor Jalaalabad Balghar Tolti Jutal Barah valley Chalunka Chorbat Valley Ghawari Haldi Hassanabad Karimabad Hushe Valley Keris Valley Kharfak Korphe Yugo, Baltistan Yugupa
Rivers, glaciers and lakes	Abruzzi Glacier Baltoro Glacier Batura Glacier Biafo Glacier Biarchedi Glacier Chogo Lungma Glacier Chumik Glacier Godwin-Austen Glacier Gondogoro Glacier Hainablak Glacier Hispar Glacier Kutiah Lungma Glacier Miar Glacier Panmah Glacier Passu Glacier Rupal Glacier Shani Glacier Trango Glacier Vigne Glacier Lake Kharfak Satpara Lake Shangrila Lake Shigar River Shyok River Indus Hushe River Saltoro River
Architecture	Chaqchan Mosque Khanaq-e-Mullah Noorbakshia Khaplu Bala Khaplu Palace Shigar Fort Skardu Fort Baltit Fort Amburiq Mosque
See also	Provincial Highways of Gilgit-Baltistan Karakoram Highway Ladakh Line of Control Kargil War Balti language History of Gilgit-Baltistan K2 Balti (food)

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