The easternmost Kham kingdom, ruled by the 'King of Chakla' from the great tea-trade entrepot of Dartsedo (Kangding); a Ming-created tusi that became the dominant Kham power after Tibetan forces were driven from the region in 1700, mediating between the Tibetan plateau and Sichuan.
Its autonomy waned under Qing frontier administration after the 1725 boundary settlement; the Mingzheng (Chakla) tusi was dismantled during Zhao Erfeng's frontier reforms in the early 1900s (falling with the Qing c. 1911).
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Kingdom of Chakla (Chala) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1407 · 1565 · 1815.
By the leading scholar of Dartsedo/Chakla; situates the Chakla kingdom and the eastern-Kham frontier polities in their 18th-19th century context.