Gorkha regiment soldiers Men of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) of the Indian Army operating alongside soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army in 2013
Total population
2,926,168 (2011 Indian Census)
Regions with significant populations
Sikkim · Darjeeling · Assam · Dehradun
Languages
Nepali
Religion
Hinduism · Buddhism · Kirant Mundhum · Christian
Related ethnic groups
Burmese Gorkha · Indian people · Nepali people · Sikkimese people
Kukri is a traditional Gorkha knife.
Indian Gorkhas, also known as Nepali Indians, are an ethno-cultural group native to India, who speak Nepali as a common language. They inhabit mainly the states of Sikkim, West Bengal, Northeast and Uttarakhand, including their diaspora elsewhere in India and abroad. The modern term "Indian Gorkha" is used to differentiate the Nepali language Speaking Indians from Nepalis (citizens of Nepal).[1]
Indian Gorkhas are citizens of India as per the gazette notification of the Government of India on the issue of citizenship of the Gorkhas from India.[2] The Nepali language is included in the eighth schedule of the Indian Constitution.[3] However, the Indian Gorkhas are faced with a unique identity crisis with regard to their Indian citizenship because of the Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1950) that permits "on a reciprocal basis, the nationals of one country in the territories of the other the same privileges in the matter of residence, ownership of property, participation in trade and commerce, movement and other privileges of a similar nature".
^"India and Nepal. Treaty of Peace and Friendship. Signed at Kathmandu" (PDF). untreaty.un.org. 31 July 1950. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
^"Gorkhaland: Gazette Notification on the Issue of Citizenship of Gorkhas". Gorkhaland. Archived from the original on 8 January 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
IndianGorkhas, also known as Nepali Indians, are an ethno-cultural group native to India, who speak Nepali as a common language. They inhabit mainly the...
Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (transl. IndianGorkha Democratic Alliance; abbr. BGPM) is a political party based in Darjeeling district and Kalimpong...
Gorkha Parisangh (Nepali: भारतीय गोर्खा परिसंघ; translation: IndianGorkha Confederation) is a non-government national-level organization of Gorkhas (Nepali)...
The Gurkhas or Gorkhas (/ˈɡɜːrkə, ˈɡʊər-/), with the endonym Gorkhali (Nepali: गोर्खाली [ɡorkʰali]), are soldiers native to the Indian subcontinent, chiefly...
The 11 Gorkha Rifles is a Gorkha regiment of the Indian Army that was re-raised after independence. The regiment consists of primarily the Kirant Tribes...
4th Gorkha Rifles or the Fourth Gorkha Rifles, abbreviated as 4 GR, is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army comprising Gurkha soldiers of Indian Gorkha...
The 8th Gorkha Rifles is a Gorkha regiment of the Indian Army. It was raised in 1824 as part of the British East India Company and later transferred to...
objectives of the new party was to "fight for the democratic right of the IndianGorkhas living in India and (to) work unitedly for the creation of separate...
The Gorkha Kingdom (Nepali: गोरखा राज्य;Gōrakhā rājya) was a member of the Chaubisi rajya, a confederation of 24 states, located at the intersection of...
The 9th Gorkha Rifles is a Gorkha infantry regiment of the Indian Army and, previously, the British Army. The regiment was initially formed by the British...
political, and symbolic center" for all IndianGorkhas, leading the movement to include the Nepali Language in the Indian constitution. Other ethnic identities...
and Darjeeling. Gorkha Public Library or Gorkha jana pustakalay was established in the year 1913, as an initiative of the IndianGorkhas to develop their...
and more infantry regiment raised from Punjab and those including Gorkhas. Indian troops maintained internal security in the country, fought for the...
Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti (BGJ or BGJS; 'IndianGorkha People's Power') is a political party in the Darjeeling District of the Indian state of West...
(also Binoy Tamang; born 28 December 1965) is an Indian Politician and a former leader of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha political party. He joined All India...
November 1981) is an IndianGorkha politician. He is the Central Committee Member and presently Secretary General and Legal Adviser of Gorkha National Liberation...
Nepali and Gorkha interchangeably... Thus early associations of the Nepalis in India... used the word "Gorkha" to denote Nepalis of Indian origin". Lama...
consists of local and city buses, micros, micro-buses and metered-taxis. IndianGorkha Pension Camp is located in Rambazar. It was established in 1955 A.D...
Shrestha (born 1975) is a Nepalese–Gurkha soldier in the Indian Army (7th battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles) and recipient of the Sena Medal for bravery, and...
in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha. My Neta Darjeeling MLA Amar Singh Rai is 'son of soil'...
of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha. Bista was born on 3 January 1986 in a Gorkha family of Vishnu and Prabah Bista in Charhajare, Senapati district of Manipur...
Gorkha League (abbreviated as ABGL) (also called All India Gorkha League (AIGL/IGL)) is a political party working amongst the Nepali-speaking Gorkha population...
Manipur and Tripura. However the proposed state doesn't have a Gorkha majority. Gorkhas constitute only around 35 per cent of the total population in the...
is the name of the proposed state in India that the Nepali-speaking IndianGorkha ethnic group in the district of Darjeeling and Kalimpong and the Dooars...
The 3rd Gorkha Rifles or Third Gorkha Rifles, abbreviated as 3 GR is an Indian Army infantry regiment. It was originally a Gurkha regiment of the British...
Assembly from Kurseong (constituency). He defeated Tshering Lama Dahal of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Tamang) by 15,515 votes in 2021 West Bengal Assembly election...
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