Gorkhas Never Part of India Claims Letter Uploaded on Darjeeling District Administration Website
Gorkhas Never Part of India? One of our readers, write This is to bring you to the light of a notification released in the website…
Gorkhaland: Know Your Roots
ओझेलमा परेका दार्जीलिङ्गे नेपाली भाषा अग्रगामी मागॅदशॅक: पादरी गंगाप्रसाद प्रधान।
दार्जीलिङ नेपाली साहित्य इतिहासका अग्रज, प्रथम सम्पादक, प्रथम पाठ्य पुस्तक लेखक, प्रथम नेपाली पत्रकार, प्रथम नेपाली बाइबल अनुवादक, प्रथम नेपाली पादरी, गीतकार अनि भाषा मागॅदशॅक…
REMEMBERING: Rajiv Gandhi
During the height of Gorkhaland andolan in 1986-88 the then Prime Minister Shri. Rajiv Gandhi had visited Darjeeling… But that was the time when…
Capt. Ram Singh Thakuri – A Gorkha Icon
This profile of Capt. Ram Singh Thakuri was compiled by eminent Gorkha history writer Ms. Jyoti Thapa Mani, who meticulously curated this profile over the…
Identity, Contestation and Ethnic Revivalism Among Nepalis in Darjeeling
Nepalis in India tend to be treated as outsiders and this has prompted the political mobilisation of Nepali identity and the ethno-linguistic movement for “Gorkhaland.”…
Music From The Margins: Performing And (Re)Defining Gorkha Cultural And Political Identity At India’s Borderlands
Extending over an area of 3,149 square kilometres, Darjeeling district, located in sub-Himalayan northeast India, is the site of my research. Flanked by the international…
Women in Gorkhaland Movement: The Question of Empowerment
Gorkhaland Movement has been a long political struggle of Indian Nepalis/ Gorkhas and is basically based on the demand for separation of Darjeeling hills from…
State Autonomy, Nationality Question And Self-Determination In India- Response of the State
The paper begins with the contemporary discourse on state autonomy and self-determination of nationalities in India and seeks to examine the response of the Indian…
The Gorkhaland Movement Of June 2017: A Darjeeling Perspective
Writes: Basant B. Lama A Historical Background Till as late as the early 1900s new kingdoms/countries were still emerging all over the globe and international…
The Gorkhaland Movement Of June 2017: A Darjeeling Perspective
Ever since the TMC came to power in 2011, it has launched a relentless campaign to make political inroads in the hills, dividing people into…