This paper is a preliminary report, a discussion of seasonal migratory trading patterns of the population of Baragaon. The villages concerned are located in the Kagbeni and Muktinath Panchayats in the central part of Mustang District, Nepal.
Baragaon is an area located along a traditional trade-route between Tibet, the middle hills of Nepal and the plains region of the Nepalese Terai and northern India. A number of articles have been written about the trading history of Thakalis entrepreneurs just south of Baragaon. The people of Baragaon were also salt traders at the time when the Thakalis gained supremacy in the area (late 19th and early 20th centuries), but the people north of Thak Khola never made large profits in the way that the Thakalis did.
