{{Short description|Ethnic group native to India}} {{original research|date=October 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=July 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}} [[File:Johaari Tribal Women Singing.JPG|thumb|Shauka women singing in a public event in Malla Dumar, Munsyari]] [[File:Pangtey museum.jpg|thumb|Pangtey Museum in Pithoragarh, a privately owned museum displaying artefacts related to the Shauka people]] [[File:OpenSpeaks-Kfy-Johari-Johari-Surendra Singh Pangtey-Torn Shoes (Joke).webm|thumb|Surendra Singh Pangtey, a Shauka, narrating a joke in a form of Johari with many words from the now-extinct Rangas language]] The '''Shauka people''', also known as '''Rangkas''' ({{Audio|OpenSpeaks-kfy-Johari-Surendra Singh Pangtey Rangkas.wav|pronunciation}}) and '''Johari''', are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group living in the Johar Valley of Gori Ganga river in Munsyari, tehsil of the Pithoragarh District in Uttarakhand, India.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kashyap |first=Anirban |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUSJkJA1RtgC |title=The Scheduled Castes in India. |date=1996 |publisher=Gyan Publishing House |location=India |publication-date=1996 |pages=83–84, 98 |isbn=978-81-212-0511-5 |language=en}}</ref> Shaukas are a part of Bhotiya community and were historically involved in trade between India and Tibet. Contemporarily, they are engaged in occupations like agriculture, trade, and animal husbandry. They currently speak the Johari, a dialect of Kumaoni,<ref name="m030">{{cite book |last=Śarmā |first=Devīdatta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nFEHAQAAIAAJ&q=johar+johari+dialect |title=Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand |date=1989 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-7099-171-7 |page= |access-date=2025-08-17}}</ref> and spoke Rangas, a now-extinct, Tibeto-Berman language in the past.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grierson |first1=George Abraham |date=1916 |title=Specimens Of The Pahari Languages And Gujuri |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.228373 |access-date=14 August 2025}}</ref>
== Notable people == * Surendra Singh Pangtey
==See also== *Kumaon *Kumauni people
== Further reading == * [https://www.amazon.de/dp/3631501528 "Zu einer Zeit, als Bäume und Gräser noch sprechen konnten...". Sozioökonomie, Kosmologie und Mythologie der Rang-Shauka im zentralindischen Himalaya (Taschenbuch) von Sabine Leder] * ''History of the Origin of Shauka Tribe of Middle Himalayas'', by Negi Girdhar Singh, Dept. of History, Kumaon University, Nainital. 2006. Lucknow Journal of Social Sciences. 2006, Volume 3, Issue 2. [http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ljss&volume=3&issue=2&article=002 ISSN 0974-8148].
== References == {{Reflist}} * [http://www.indiaprofile.com/destinations/munsiyari.htm Travelogue - Munsyari, Of Shaukas, Salt Route and Snow Peaks]
Category:Kumaon division Category:Scheduled Tribes of India Category:People from Pithoragarh Category:Social groups of Uttarakhand