Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Nepalese caste system is the traditional system of social stratification of Nepal. The Nepalese caste system broadly borrows the classical Hindu Chaturvarnashram model, consisting of four broad social classes or varna : Brahmin , Kshatriya , Vaishya , Sudra .
Ethnic Groups of Nepal by District, NHPC 2021. Ethnographic map of Nepal (Gurung 1998) Nepal ethnic groups Magar girls in ethnic dress. Magars are the most populous Janajati group in Nepal. Ethnic groups in Nepal are delineated using language, ethnic identity or the caste system in Nepal. They are categorized by common culture and endogamy ...
Caste-related violence in Nepal (1 P) N. Newar caste system (16 P) S. Social groups of Nepal (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Caste system in Nepal" The following 14 ...
Damai (Nepali: दमाइँ pronounced; IAST: Damāĩ) is an occupational caste found among Khas people comprising 45 subgroups. [3] Their surnames take after the subgroup they belong to. [ 4 ] People belonging to this caste are traditionally tailors [ 3 ] and musicians capable of using the naumati baja - an ensemble of nine traditional ...
Newar caste system is the system by which Newārs, the historical inhabitants of Kathmandu Valley, are divided into groups on the basis of Vedic varna model and divided according to their hereditary occupations.
Similarly, outside Nepal, for instance in Darjeeling and Sikkim, almost all the Newars used ‘Pradhān’, another high-caste Srēṣṭha surname, as their common name. [3] The Chathariyas of Nepal, therefore, see the status and purity of these Pradhan from Sikkim and Darjeeling with doubt as they do with the Shrestha of Nepal. [28]
Bahun (Nepali: बाहुन), also known as Hill Brahmins, [3] are a Brahmin varna among the Khas of Nepal. They are a sub-caste of the Kanyakubja Brahmin [4] [5] [6] while their origins are from Kannauj [7] and the Himalayan belt of South Asia. According to the 2011 Nepal census, Bahun is the second most populous group after Chhetri. [8]
Unlike other common-origin ethnic or caste groups in Nepal, the Newars are regarded as an example of a nation community with a relict identity, derived from an ethnically diverse, previously existing polity. The Newar community within it consists of various strands of ethnic, racial, caste and religious heterogeneity, as they are the ...