Pulga
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| Pulga | |
|---|---|
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Western Himalayas |
| Growing Area | Parvati Valley |
| Geography | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Himachal Pradesh |
| District | Kullu District |
| Tehsil | Bhuntar Tehsil |
| Coordinates | 31.9952, 77.4403 |
| Settlement | |
| Type | Village |
| Access | On foot from Barshaini |
| Landscape | |
| Elevation | 2,130–2,232 m |
| Terrain | Deodar forest in the upper Parvati Valley |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | Pulga |
| Accessions | 2 |
Pulga is a village in the upper Parvati Valley in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India, near the road-head at Barshaini. The gazetteer of 1897 describes a pony road up the valley from Manikaran to Pulga, where there was a forest rest-house.[1] The dam of the second stage of the Parbati Hydroelectric Project stands near the village.[2] Two accessions carry Pulga as their locality, both seed lines from commercial sellers, and the village gives its name to an appellation. It was one of the five villages of a 2015–2017 survey of the uses of wild hemp in the Manikaran valley.[3]
Name
History
The gazetteer of 1897 describes "a fairly good road, possible for a hill-pony only", running from Manikaran up the valley "to Pulga, where there is a forest officer's rest-house". A forest notification of 1876 reproduced in the same volume uses a pillar near "Phulga hamlet" on the Parbati as a boundary marker.[1] The gazetteer of 1917 lists forest rest-houses at Bhuin, Jari and Pulga on the Manikaran road and gives Pulga's height as 7,000 ft (about 2,130 m). It mentions a suspension bridge "at Pulga over the Parbati" and carries a photograph captioned "Deodars at Pulga, Parbati Valley".[4]
The 1917 gazetteer also names Pulga on an older route across the Himalaya. It traces a trade route that went "by the upper Chandra valley as far as Puti Runi, thence to the Tos Nal and Pulga" and on to Rampur, "in use in the time of Sidh Singh". It notes that C. G. Bruce, crossing from Naggar to Malana and up the Parbati, "viewed the peaks near Pulga".[4]
Geography
The village lies about 600 m south of Barshaini. A seed seller's listing describes it as "accessible only by foot".[5] The second stage of the hydroelectric project, run by NHPC, was designed to divert the river from "a concrete gravity dam near Pulga village" through a tunnel of about 32 km to a powerhouse near Siund. The tunnel runs between Barshaini and Siund; The Tribune reported in 2023 that a 9-km section of it, cut by a tunnel-boring machine, had been finished after 23 years.[2]
The 2011 census does not enumerate Pulga as a separate village.[6][7]
Cannabis cultivation
The 2015–2017 survey found hemp used in the Manikaran valley for rope, pullan footwear and food, offered to Shiva and made into ghota at Shivratri. The survey gives these uses for the five villages together, not for Pulga alone.[3]
The two accessions are a general population from the 2020 season sold by Coco Genes and a line that Landrace Mafia lists as Pulga Village.[5][8]
Accessions
| Name | ID | Type | Elevation (m) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COC-IND-HIM-0120200003 | Pulga General Population 2020 | COC-IND-HIM-0120200003 | General population | 2895 |
| LMF-IND-HIM-0120250002 | Pulga Village 2025 | LMF-IND-HIM-0120250002 |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Diack, A.H. (1899). Gazetteer of the Kangra District, Parts II to IV: Kulu, Lahul and Spiti, 1897. Lahore: Punjab Government – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Vashisht, Abhinav (4 November 2023). "Work on 9-km NHPC tunnel completed after 23-year delay". The Tribune.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rathore, S.; Shashni, S.; Samant, S.S.; Sundriyal, R.C. (2018). "Indigenous uses of wild hemp (Cannabis sativa) by the local inhabitants in Manikaran Valley of Himachal Pradesh, North Western Himalaya". Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products. 25 (3): 127–130. doi:10.54207/bsmps2000-2018-7393KF.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Punjab District Gazetteers, Vol. XXX-A: Kangra District, Parts II–IV (Kulu, Lahul and Spiti). Lahore: Government of Punjab. 1918 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Pulga Village | Parvati Valley". Collector's Collective. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ Directorate of Census Operations, Himachal Pradesh (2014). District Census Handbook, Kullu: Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract (Report). Census of India 2011, Himachal Pradesh, Series 03, Part XII-B. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India.
- ↑ Directorate of Census Operations, Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh - Village Amenities (Spreadsheet (DH_2011_DCHB_Village_Release_0200.xlsx)). Census of India 2011, District Census Handbook, Kullu. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
- ↑ "Pulga Village". Landrace Mafia. Retrieved 21 October 2026.