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Magar people celebrates major festival like "Chhaigo" as Lhosar which is considered as the New Year for Magar community according to the Naagchi Sambat. Magar people also observe festivals like Chaiti, Rungma, Keja, Yacha etc. These festivals are based on the Tibetan Buddhism and the Bon culture.
Magars are martial people who first established their kingdom in present-day western Nepal. They were animistic and shamanic in their religious practices. The Kham Magar of the upper Karnali basin and their brethren of the mid-hills of Nepal had a flourishing kingdom. Archaeological proof of their existence can be found in the western mid-hills ...
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Despite adversity, the Magar people retained a robust oral history and a sense of past greatness, which created grievances and made them receptive to the Maobadi (Maoist) movement that opposed the Shah Dynasty regime in the 1996-2006 Nepalese Civil War and even the multiparty democracy that the Shahs had toyed with.
Though spoken by relatively fewer people than the Indo-European family (17.3% [7] of population), it includes a greater number of languages, about 63 languages. Languages belonging to this group are Tamang, Nepal Bhasa (Newar), Magar, Limbu, etc.
The Magar, also spelled as Mangar, Monger, and Mongar, are the third largest ethnolinguistic groups of Nepal, indigenous to Western Nepal and representing 7.12% of Nepal's total population according to the 2011 Nepal census.
Magar may refer to: Magar people, of Nepal and India Kham Magar, Northern Magars of Nepal; Magar language, their Sino-Tibetan language Magar Kham language, a Tibeto-Burman language of the Kham Magar; Khagendra Thapa Magar, the shortest man in the world (as of 2012) Magar, the Catholicos of All Armenians from 1885 to 1891
The Tharu people celebrate this day as their new year. [2] It is also regarded as a major government-declared annual festival of the Magar community. [3] Maghe Sankranti shares similarities with solstice festivals in various other religious traditions. [4] Observant Hindus take ritual baths during this festival.