Along the upper stretch of the Indus River, hidden between steep rocky hills, lie the small villages of Ladakh, once promoted as ‘The Last Aryan Settlements’.

For generations, the Brokpa people of Dah, Hanu, Garkon, and Darchik lived in this Himalayan region of northern India, growing barley, tending orchards, and passing down traditions shaped by the harsh but beautiful land that stretches into the Tibetan plateau.

Then, in the late 1990s, a strange rumour started to appear in travel magazines and foreign media.

It claimed that European women were visiting these villages not just to see the mountains, but to have babies with local men, believed to carry ‘pure Aryan blood’.

The story spread quickly. It attracted tourists and the attention of filmmakers, and stayed online long after the

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