Editing Demchugdongrub (section)

==Early life==
Demchugdongrub was a [[Chahars|Chahar]] born into the [[Plain White Banner]] of the [[Eight Banners]] in [[Chahar Province]] during the [[Qing dynasty]]. He was the sole son of Namjil Wangchuk, the Duoluo Duling Junwang ({{lang|zh-Hans|多羅杜棱郡王}} ''Duōluō Dùléng Jùnwáng'') of the [[Sonid Right Banner|Sönid Right Banner]] and Chief of the [[Xilingol League]]. His name consists of the Tibetan words "[[Chakrasamvara]]" ({{bo|w=bde mchog}}) and "[[Gautama Buddha|Siddhartha]]" ({{bo|w=don grub}}) respectively.

After Namjil Wangchuk died in 1908, the six-year-old Demchugdongrub, with the approval of the Qing, inherited one of his father's titles – the Duoluo Duling Junwang. In his youth Demchugdongrub studied the [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]], Chinese, and [[Manchu language]]s. After the fall of the Qing, [[Yuan Shikai]] promoted Demchugdongrub to the title of [[Jasagh]] Heshuo Duling [[Jinong]] ({{lang|zh-Hans|扎薩克和碩杜棱亲王}} ''Zhāsàkè Héshuò Dùléng Qīnwáng'') in 1912.

Demchugdongrub married a daughter of a Taiji (Qing aristocratic title) nobleman from his own Sönid Right Banner, and the next year had their first child, Dolgorsuren ({{lang|zh-Hant|都古爾蘇隆}} ''Dōugǔ'ěrsūlóng''). Several years later, Demchugdongrub had four more sons and one daughter with his second wife, Fujin ({{lang|zh-Hant|福晉}} ''Fújìn''), a daughter of another Taiji nobleman from the [[Abag Banner|Abaga Banner]].

===Early political activities===
Demchugdongrub was appointed as a member of the Chahar Provincial Committee in 1929. In 1931, he succeeded to the post of the Chief of the Xilingol League after Yang Cang ({{lang|zh|楊桑}} ''Yáng Sāng'') and Sodnom Rabdan ({{lang|zh|索特那木拉布坦}} ''Suǒtènàmù Lābùtǎn'').

During September 1933, the Mongolian princes of Chahar Province and [[Suiyuan]] traveled to the temple at [[Bailingmiao]] north of [[Hohhot|Guihua]] and gathered in a council chamber with Demchugdongrub, who for months had been trying to found a pan-Mongolian self-rule movement. In mid-October, despite their traditional suspicions of one another, they and Demchugdongrub agreed to draw up confederation documents for the Inner Mongolian banners. They sent word to [[Nanjing]] that they intended to rule Inner Mongolia themselves. They indicated that if they were obstructed by the Chinese government, then they would not hesitate to seek assistance from Japan. In response, Nanjing sent [[Huang Shaohong]] as an envoy, who in the end authorized the creation of the [[Mongol Local Autonomy Political Affairs Committee]].<ref>[[#Lin2010|Lin (2010)]], p. 43</ref><ref>[[#Lin2010|Lin (2010)]], p. 49</ref>