Fact Check: The claim of European women coming to Ladakh to get pregnant from Aryan Valley village men is misleading.

New Delhi: A video is going viral on social media. In this, a woman is telling that there is a belief in Aryan Valley Village of Ladakh that there are pure Aryans left here who are not found anywhere else in the world. They are considered to be the descendants of Alexander.

What is the claim?

X handle @kattappa_12 has shared this video. In the video, the woman is telling that women from Europe come to Aryan Valley Village to get pregnant. That is because the pure descendants of Aryans here are quite shapely, beautiful and strong. Therefore, women from abroad who want to have a child who grows up to be of warrior stature, come here only to get pregnant from men here and after pregnancy return to their country. Thus, Aryan Valley Village is a pregnancy tourist destination.

X handle @coolfunnytshirt has also shared the same video.

What is the truth?

Our investigation revealed that the woman seen in the video is Kanchan Dogra Negi who keeps posting videos on Instagram. When we wanted to know the truth of his/her claim, we found many articles, videos and social media posts related to it on the internet. News 18, Deccan Chronicle, brown history, riding In the articles and blogs available on websites like Aryan Valley Village, it has been told that 160 km away from Leh, there are villages like Biama, Dah, Hanu, Garkon, Darchik, which together form Aryan Valley. Here it is said about the people of Brokpa community that they are pure Aryans.
We found the India Today report dated May 13, 2018, on Facebook. In this, on the question of reporter Ashraf Wani, a local person says that once or twice a girl has come from abroad, I have seen it with my own eyes.

In an Instagram video dated October 2, 2024, the girl is telling that till a few years ago, European girls used to come here for pregnancy.

In this video of November 3, 2023, YouTuber is telling that when he/she found out about pregnancy tourism, no one confirmed it. It has been told that there is a trend of multiple marriages here, so it is possible that there might have been a few cases of a foreign woman coming here and becoming pregnant, but calling it pregnancy tourism is like exaggerating the isolated cases.

In this Facebook video of October 19, 2018, local people are also saying that they had heard about this but did not see it. Yes, foreign women come there, but it is difficult to say whether they come only to be pregnant.

In this Insta video of October 17, 2023, it is told that documentaries and books have been written on pregnancy tourism and foreign women, especially German women, coming here to get pregnant from the men of the Brokpa community, but after 2006, no such The matter has not come to light.

In this video of July 10, 2024, when YouTubers ask a local woman about this, the woman boldly says – That is a lie. A long time ago, a woman came and went away pregnant. Now this does not happen. This is wrong.

conclusion

After such a thorough investigation, it became clear that the claim of foreign women coming to get pregnant from the men of Aryan Valley is not completely wrong. But only foreign women come here or all foreign women come here only to get pregnant, this is not right. Most evidence suggests that till a few years ago, foreign women occasionally came for pregnancy tourism, but this is no longer the case. Therefore, in our investigation, the claim of Aryan Valley being a pregnancy tourism was found to be misleading.