From: dipakde27@gmail.com   
      
   ETHNICITY 'GORKHA' LABELING, ALAS NEPALESE OF DARJEELING   
      
   -	DIPAK DE [HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST; M. PHIL IN HUMAN RIGHTS]    
      
                District Administration Office of Darjeeling district of West   
   Bengal is ignorant on the matter of who is a Gorkha and who is a Nepali?   
   Arrangement for regular class is to be conducted to teach the staff and   
   officers which are necessary for    
   the proper administration work of Darjeeling district.  Darjeeling district is   
   a geo-politically sensitive area, so the staff including officers should know   
   the actual identity of the people of Darjeeling district. In the official   
   website of Darjeeling,    
   mentioned the following, which is full of ignorance - 'The greater bulk of the   
   people in the Hills are Gorkhas. They are industrious and enterprising as a   
   race and speak various dialects. The short Mongolian type Nepalese, the   
   Gorkhas, renowned for their    
   military prowess the world over, and the first to be decorated with the   
   coveted Victoria Cross, finds jobs and security both in the British and Indian   
   armies.'  On the matter of 'great bulk' mentioned in the Migration chapter of   
   Bengal District    
   Gazetteers, Darjeeling, 1907 it is stated that 'But the great bulk of the   
   immigrants come from Nepal, chiefly as labourers in the tea gardens; and in   
   the hills the population is mainly Nepalese.'  The great bulk of the people in   
   the hills are 'Nepalese'    
   not Gorkha. It is noted by the District Administration Office that there is no   
   existence of people of 'Gorkha' community or ethnic/tribal group or race in   
   this world. The sentence "The ethnicity of Gorkhas established" mentioned   
   Memorandum of    
   Understanding of the tripartite agreement of 2011 for formation of GTA   
   [Gorkhaland Territorial Administration] is to deceive the citizens of India.   
   According to human rights' philosophy, it is a crime against peace and   
   security of mankind. This    
   administration should explain, based on which documents, records, census   
   report etc. mentioned "The greater bulk of the people in the Hills are   
   Gorkhas." The other name of "Nepalese" is not "Gorkha", already intimated   
   through advertisements by the Union    
   Home Ministry, New Delhi. "Gorkha" is absolutely a concocted, fictitious race   
   or community or ethnic/tribal group.    
      
                In the above-mentioned Gazetteers, it is stated that 'The third   
   race that is principality met with in Darjeeling and the dominant race, is the   
   Nepalese. The Nepalese are less Mongolian in appearance than the Bhutias and   
   Lepchas and have an    
   admixture of Aryan blood. They are alert and virile race, hard-working and   
   intelligent. Most of the work on hill tea-gardens is done by the Nepalese.   
   .....Many of them enlist in the famous Gurkha regiments.'  It is the question   
   to the District    
   Administration of Darjeeling including the District Magistrate, what is the   
   meaning of "The short Mongolian type Nepalese, the Gorkhas?' The sea depth of   
   ignorance is prevailing inside staff of District Administration of Darjeeling.   
   Nepal remained    
   isolated from rest of the world up to the year 1951. What followed immediately   
   upon the fall of the Rana regime in 1951 was a foretaste of Nepal's   
   continually stymied attempts to modernize, industrialize and democratize in   
   the coming half-century.    
   Between 1951 and 1959, Nepal went through a series of short-lived government   
   based on an interim constitution entitled the Interim Government of Nepal Act,   
   1951. It made way to for the authoritarian rule of King Tribhuvan Shah by   
   granting the king    
   supreme executive, legislative and judicial powers. Actually this was the rule   
   of Gorkha i.e. Gorkha kingdom which was started since 1769, from the formation   
   of Nepal country by King Prithvi Narayan Shah. The concept of Nationalism in   
   Nepal, the    
   philosophy of the Gorkha kingdom, is one language, one dress and one country.   
   This culture is also called the Parbatiya culture. And we have seen that the   
   Nepalese leaders of Darjeeling, is continuously implementing this culture in   
   Darjeeling hills. The    
   first effective census was done in Nepal in 1991. In this census report   
   reveals the picture of the people of Nepal. It depicted that about 33 per cent   
   people of Nepal are only Mongoloid origin and rest are mixed-blood people. The   
   next census reports of    
   2001 and 2001 brought out vivid picture of castes, ethnic/tribal groups   
   picture.  Mongoloid origin Nepalese people are solely ethnic/tribal people   
   like the Lepchas of Darjeeling. But the District Administration of Darjeeling   
   mentioned "The short    
   Mongolian type Nepalese" i.e. all Nepalese are Mongolian- how?    
      
      
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