Lhotshampa refugees in Beldangi camp in Nepal. The man is holding a Bhutanese passport.
Total population
242,000[1][2][3][4]
Regions with significant populations
United States
Nepal
Thimphu
Paro
Phuntsholing
Languages
Nepali
Newari
Dzongkha
Religion
Hinduism (majority) Buddhism
Kiratism
(Minority)
Related ethnic groups
Indo-Aryans: Bahun, Chhetri, Khas people, Newar people Tibeto-Burman: Newar people, Kirati people
The Lhotshampa or Lhotsampa (Nepali: ल्होत्साम्पा; Tibetan: ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ་, Wylie: lho-mtshams-pa) people are a heterogeneous Bhutanese people of Nepalese descent.[5] "Lhotshampa", which means "southern borderlanders" in Dzongkha, began to be used by the Bhutanese state in the second half of the twentieth century to refer to the population of Nepali origin in the south of the country.[6] After being displaced as a result of the state-run ethnic cleansing and living in refugee camps in eastern parts of Nepal, starting in 2007 most of the Bhutanese Refugees were resettled to various countries, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. As of 2021[update] the number of Lhotshampa in Nepal is significantly lower than that in the United States and other countries where they have resettled.[7][failed verification] People of Nepalese origin started to settle in uninhabited areas of southern Bhutan in the 19th century.[8]
^"Population of Lhotshampas in Bhutan". UNHCR. 2004. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
^Adelman, Howard (2008). Protracted Displacement in Asia: No Place to Call Home. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-7238-8.
^Frelick, Bill (1 February 2008). "Bhutan's Ethnic Cleansing". New Statesman, Human Rights Watch. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
^Mishra, Vidhyapati (28 June 2013). "Bhutan Is No Shangri-La". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
^ This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Worden, Robert L. (1991). Savada, Andrea Matles (ed.). Bhutan: A Country Study. Federal Research Division. Bhutan - Ethnic Groups.
^Nelson, Andrew; Stam, Kathryn (11 August 2021). "Bhutanese or Nepali? The Politics of Ethnonym Ambiguity". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 44 (4): 772–789. doi:10.1080/00856401.2021.1951460. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
^Aris, Michael (1979). Bhutan: The Early History of a Himalayan Kingdom. Aris & Phillips. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-85668-199-8.
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"Background and History: Settlement of the Southern Bhutanese". Bhutanese Refugees: The Story of a Forgotten People. Archived from the original on 10 October 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
The Lhotshampa or Lhotsampa (Nepali: ल्होत्साम्पा; Tibetan: ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ་, Wylie: lho-mtshams-pa) people are a heterogeneous Bhutanese people of Nepalese...
to remove the Lhotshampa, or ethnic Nepalis, from Bhutan. Inter-ethnic tensions in Bhutan have resulted in the flight of many Lhotshampa to Nepal, many...
Ngalop of western and northern Bhutan, the Sharchop of eastern Bhutan, the Lhotshampa concentrated in southern Bhutan, and Bhutanese tribal and aboriginal peoples...
Bhutanese refugees are Lhotshampas ("southerners"), a group of Nepali language-speaking Bhutanese people. These refugees registered in refugee camps in...
region of high Lhotshampa population, resulting in mass denationalisation of Lhotshampas, followed by forcible deportation of 107,000 Lhotshampas, approximately...
Buddhism or another school of Buddhism. Almost 11.3% of citizens (mainly Lhotshampas) practiced Hinduism. The constitution states that Buddhism is the state’s...
Bhutan's human rights record has received criticism for the treatment of the Lhotshampa people, many of whom became refugees in Nepal, as well as for failure...
to the Pew Research Center 2010. It is followed mainly by the ethnic Lhotshampa. The Shaivite, Vaishnavite, Shakta, Ganapathi, Puranic, and Vedic schools...
spoken along Bhutan's borders and among the primarily Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa community in South and East Bhutan. Chöke (or Classical Tibetan) is the...
years to 2011, and doubled again in the 5 years in 2016. About 5,000 Lhotshampas or Bhutanese refugees who are living in various refugee camps of Nepal...
Bhutan is said to have deported between 10,000 and 100,000 ethnic Nepalis (Lhotshampa). The actual number of refugees who were initially deported is debated...
Sankosh river flows through the district. It is the main district where the Lhotshampa resides. It has many beautiful places such as Rigsum Pemai Dumra, Pemachoeling...
Dzongkha • Nepali Religion Buddhism • Hinduism Related ethnic groups Lhotshampa • South Asian Americans • Bhutanese people • Nepalese Americans • Tibetan...
celebrated by Hindus of Nepal and elsewhere in the world, including among the Lhotshampa of Bhutan and the Burmese Gurkhas of Myanmar. The festival is also referred...
language speakers in India. In Bhutan, native Nepali speakers, known as Lhotshampa, are estimated at 35% of the population. This number includes displaced...
number of Lhotshampa (Bhutanese Nepalis) refugees who were deported from Bhutan. Every year the Netherlands has been resettling around 100 Lhotshampa refugees...
Portugal Indian community in Spain Indo-Fijian South Indians in Fiji Lhotshampa Muhajir people See also Bangladeshi diaspora, Indian diaspora, Nepalese...
including the Lhotshampa were required to observe the Ngalop dress code in public during business hours. This decree was resented by the Lhotshampa, who voiced...
since the 1990s. Most of these parties are run by exiled people from the Lhotshampa community from the refugee camps in Nepal. In Bhutan, political parties...
Many slaves who arrived since the 1800s were the forefathers of modern Lhotshampa, a heterogeneous community of Nepalese origin in southern Bhutan. As slaves...
Duars follow Animism. Ethnic groups in Bhutan Monpa people Ngalop people Lhotshampa Toto people Demographics of Bhutan Schottli, Jivanta; Mitra, Subrata K...
from Sri Lanka. In Tasmania, Hinduism is practised mainly by the ethnic Lhotshampa from Bhutan. Hinduism is also more popular among the Anglo-Australians...
Khudunabari, Sanischare and Timai hosting Bhutanese refugees. They are Lhotshampas who were forced to flee from Bhutan to Nepal. There are a number of camps...
Year banned Reference(s) Bhutan People's Party Democratic socialism, Lhotshampa interests 1990 Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) Communism...
Gruyter. pp. 30–32. doi:10.1515/9783110428612. ISBN 9783110428612. "Lhotshampas". Minority Rights. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2023. Chatterjee...
Dzongkhag has a mix of population largely dominated by the Sharchops and by Lhotshampas in Bangtar. It is also an important economic center of the country where...
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Worden, Robert L. (1991). Savada, Andrea Matles (ed.). Bhutan: A Country Study. Federal Research Division. Bhutan - Ethnic Groups.
