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The Government of Nepal legally abolished and criminalized any caste-based discrimination, including "untouchability" (the ostracism of a specific caste) - in 1963. [2] With Nepal's step towards freedom and equality, Nepal, previously ruled by a Hindu monarchy , was a Hindu nation which has now become a secular state . [ 3 ]
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 ...
Guru Maharaj Narayan Gautam Khatri known as "Swami Hamsananda", Hindu saint and founder of Swargadwari Temple complex of Nepal in the 20th century Dhruba Chandra Gautam , Nepalese writer and novelist Pushpa Bhusal Gautam , former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives of the federal parliament of Nepal
University of Zurich professor Werner M. Egli wrote in his 2014 book The Sunuwar of Nepal and their Sense of Communication that People of Nepal is a "classic". [5] Anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin, a professor at the University of British Columbia, wrote in his 2012 book A Grammar of the Thangmi Language that People of Nepal was ...
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]
Nepal Bhasa developed from the 14th to the late 18th centuries as the court and state language. [50] It was used universally in stone and copper inscriptions, sacred manuscripts, official documents, journals, title deeds, correspondence and creative writing. In 2011, there were approximately 846,000 native speakers of Nepal Bhasa. [51]
Community elder Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda discusses the endangerment of the Kusunda language in eponymous 2019 documentary Gyani Maiya. The Kusunda (Nepali: कुसुन्डा जाति) or Ban Raja ("people of the forest"), known to themselves as the Mihaq or Myahq or Myahak), [2] are a tribe of former hunter-gatherers of the forests of western Nepal, who are now intermarried with ...
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 ...