Brokpa
The Brokpa (Brokstat: Minaro) are a small community of Dard people who had migrated to the eastern regions of Kashmir in the remote past. They speak a language called Brokstat, an Indo-European Shina language, which is not mutually intelligible with other Shina dialects. They are mostly found in the Indian Union territory of Ladakh. They are mainly found in Dha, Hanu, Beama, Garkon, Darchiks, Batalik, Sharchay and Chulichan. Part of the community are also located in the Deosai plateau just across the Line of Control in the villages Ganoaks, Morol, Dananusar, and Chechethang in Baltistan. They are said  to have originally come from Chilas and settled in the area generations ago. The Brokpa in the Leh district are mostly Vajrayana Buddhist while those in the Kargil district are mostly Muslim. A small percentage also follow Hinduism. Name. The endonym of the Brokpa people is "Minaro," which means "Aryan" in the Brokstat language. 'Brogpa' is the name given by the Purig people of Kargil while Drokpa is the name given by the Bod people of Leh district. Some expert say it maybe derives from Drukpa, which means "Turks" in Tibetan ("cf." 'Drugu' for an ethnic "Turk"). Alternatively, it may  just mean འབྲོག་པ། (pronounced Brokpa in Ladakh), a Tibetan word for pastoral nomads. Diet. The traditional Brogpa diet is based on locally grown foods such as barley and hardy wheat prepared most often as tsampa/sattu (roasted flour). It takes in different ways. Other important foods include potatoes, radishes, turnips, and Gur-Gur Cha, a brewed tea made of black tea, butter and salt. Dairy and poultry sources are not eaten because of religious taboos. Brogpa eat three meals a day: "Choalu Unis" (breakfast), "Beali" (lunch) and "Rata Unis" (dinner). Brogpa vary with respect to the amount of meat (mainly  mutton) that they eat. A household's economic position decides the consumption of meat. It is only during festivals and rituals that all have greater access to mutton. Economy and employment. The Brogpa economy has shifted from agropastoralism to wage labor, and the division of labor that relied on stratifications of age and gender is now obsolete. The Brogpa transition to private property, monogamy, nuclear families, formal education, wage labor, and their incorporation into a highly militarized economy of soldiering and portering illuminates the complex workings of modernity in Ladakh.