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In Nepal majority of people identify as Hindu, however, Buddhist influences are pervasive in most aspects of Nepali culture to an extent that Buddhist and Hindu temples are shared places of worship for peoples of both faith so that, unlike, in other countries, the distinction between Hinduism and Buddhism in Nepal is not always clear.
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Nepal and majority
In Nepal, the gaur population was estimated to be 250 – 350 in the mid-1990s, with the majority in Chitwan National Park and the adjacent Parsa Wildlife Reserve.
In the first democratic election of Nepal, Nepali Congress Party secured an overwhelming majority to form the government.
In India and Nepal, the Hindu majority holds the cow a motherly figure.
At present, the majority of Gurungs live in Nepal, where they form one of the many ethnic groups in the country.
The majority of Tharu live in Nepal where they constitute 13. 5 % of the total population or 3. 96 million of Nepal's estimated 29. 4 million population as of July 2010.
According to the percentage, Nepal has the highest majority of Hindu population in the world followed by India and Mauritius.
The Terai is the most productive region in Nepal with the majority of the country's industries.
While 80 % of Indians are Hindus and Nepal is a Hindu-majority State, Sri Lanka and Bhutan have a majority of Buddhists.
As a result, today the small and marginal famers constitute the majority percentage share in the Nepal tea industry.
Hinduism is a minority religion in the United States, American Hindus accounting for an estimated 0. 4 % of total US population .</ ref > The vast majority of American Hindus are Indian Americans, immigrants from India and Nepal and their descendants, besides a much smaller number of converts.
Nepal and people
* 2006 – 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
* 2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashed near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
* The name Nepal is also supposed to be derived from the Sanskrit word " NEP "( न े प ), with the suffix " AL " ( आल ) added to it ; though still under controversy, NEP were the people who used to be cow herders — the GOPALS ( ग ो प ा ल )— who came to the Nepal valley for the first time from the Ganges plain of India.
By this time, people living in and around Kathmandu Valley ( irrespective of their ethnic origins ) were called " Newars " ( or " Nepa: mi " in " Newari " language meaning, the citizens of Nepal ).
Magars are martial people that first established their kingdom in present day western Nepal.
In the meantime, the History of Kirat covers much of the history and achievements of the Kirant people of Eastern Nepal / Kiratdesh from ancient period until the Gorkha conquest in the eastern Nepal.
As the ceded territories were not restored to Nepal by the British when freedom was granted to the people of British India, these have become a part of the Republic of India ( see Greater Nepal ).
His original family name was Rana but in Nepal people mistook his Rajput title of Kunwar for his family name, Kunwar is a title denoting royal lineage used by Rajput princes in northern India.
Some of these valleys historically were more accessible from Tibet than Nepal and are populated by people with Tibetan affinities called Bhotiya or Bhutia including the famous Sherpas in Kumbu valley near Mount Everest.
The population of Nepal is estimated at 29, 391, 883 people in July 2011, with a population growth rate of 1. 596 % and a median age of 21. 6 years.
The cultural ties between Nepal and Japan date back to much earlier days before direct people to people contact started in 1899.
The Sherpa people of Nepal and Sikkim call it ye niglva ponva and wah donka.
In Nepal, a community-based tourism model has been developed with a strong emphasis on sharing benefits with local people and on the regeneration of degraded forests.
* Severe floods hit South Asia, killing over 4, 000 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
** Thai Airways Flight 311 operated by Airbus A310-300 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
With less than 700, 000 people living in Bhutan, if all the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal would return it would severely disturb the country's demography.
Other names include Parbatiya (" mountain language ", identified with the Parbatiya people of Nepal ) and Lhotshammikha ( the " southern language " of the Lhotshampa people of Bhutan ).
Combining the Ethnologue figures with strong population growth in Nepal, the assumption of 20 million people with Nepali as their mother tongue is a reasonable estimate for 2006.
Certainly the government numbers do not include people in the refugee camps in Nepal and other persons forced out of Bhutan, which total approximately 125, 000.
The people speak 3 different dialects of this Tibeto-Burman language that is closely related to Raute and Raji, two undocumented languages spoken in western Nepal.
Nepal and identify
The third gender in Nepal -- denoted on official documents as " other " -- is an identity-based category for people who do not identify as either male or female.
Nepal and Hindu
Parts of Ancient India and Nepal where Buddhism originated were also for long periods Buddhist, and whether as a result of the Buddhist, Jain or Hindu promotion of the principle of ahimsa ( harmlessness ) many Indians remain vegetarian.
The earliest wave dates back to hundreds of years as early marriage and high birthrates propelled Hindu settlement eastward across Nepal, then into Sikkim and Bhutan.
Other countries with large Hindu populations include Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji and the island of Bali.
The Gorkhali claimed descent from the Hindu Rajputs and Brahmins of Northern India, who entered modern Nepal from the west.
Moreover, Nepal was declared a secular state abrogating the previous status of a Hindu Kingdom.
* In Hinduism, all festival are according to the Hindu calendar, based on the Vikram Samvat, which also functions as the national calendar of Nepal and Bangladesh.
In the present day magnificent Hindu temples have been built in various countries of the world including India, Nepal, Great Britain, the United States, Australia, South Africa and Canada.
** Hindu civilization, located chiefly in India, Bhutan and Nepal, and culturally adhered to by the global Indian diaspora.
See princely states for the often particular, mainly Hindu titles in former British India, including modern Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, and Nepal.
Deuki is an ancient custom practiced in the far western regions of Nepal where a young girl is offered to the local Hindu temple to fulfill an earlier made promise to gain religious merit.
The children describe their dramatic recruitment and participation in the Maoist People ’ s Liberation Army during the eleven-year civil war between the Maoist insurgents and the Hindu monarchy controlled government of Nepal.
According to the 2001 Nepal Census, there are 52, 237 Chepang in the country, of which 70. 23 % were Hindu, 18. 75 % were Buddhists and 8. 78 % were Christians.
Sel roti is a Nepali homemade, ring-shaped, rice doughnut prepared during Tihar, the widely celebrated Hindu festival in Nepal.
* Kanu a Hindu caste in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
There are Hindu temples in Assam, India as well as Nepal where goats and chickens are sacrificed.
This marks the first day of the Hindu solar calendar and is also observed in Bengal, Manipur, Nepal, Orissa, Punjab, Kerala and Tamil Nadu though called by different names.
Meanwhile, Bennett had made contact with the Shivapuri Baba, a Hindu sage living in Nepal.
Today, in all Hindu art and all over India and Nepal, ' om ' can be seen virtually everywhere, a common sign for Hinduism and its philosophy and theology.
Brahmin ( also called Brahmana ; from the Sanskrit ) is a term used to designate a member of one of the four varnas ( castes ) in the traditional Hindu societies of Nepal and India.
The Hindu Vikram-Samvat calendar is celebrated as New Year's Day in Nepal where Vikram Sambat is the official calendar.
Many people of the Hindu faith observe Dasara through social gatherings and food offerings to the gods at home and in temples throughout Nepal and India.
Vijayadashami ( व ि जय ा दशम ी) or Dasain ( दश ैं) is the biggest festival of the year in Nepal that falls in September / October and is celebrated by Hindu and non-Hindu Nepalis.
In the past, until the fall of Monarchism in 2008, the only Hindu Monarch on the Planet, the King of Nepal, used to put tika on the foreheads of the people.
Those victims were said to be supporters of the extremist Hindi group Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ), who had been travelling from the Ayodhya region, near the border with Nepal.
* in Nepal since 1802, accredited to the Hindu Kings ( title Maharajadhiraja ), since 15 March 1816 exercising a de facto protectorate — the last staying on 1920 as Envoy till the 1923 emancipation
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