The Lhotshampa or Lhotsampa (Nepali: ल्होत्साम्पा; Tibetan: ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ་, Wylie: lho-mtshams-pa) people are a heterogeneous Bhutanese people of Nepali descent...

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...

Buddhism or another school of Buddhism. Almost 22% 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...

region of high Lhotshampa population, resulting in mass denationalisation of Lhotshampas, followed by forcible deportation of 107,000 Lhotshampas, approximately...

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...

Dzongkha • Nepali Religion Buddhism • Hinduism Related ethnic groups Lhotshampa • South Asian Americans • Bhutanese people • Nepalese Americans • Tibetan...

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...

Na, Galo, Mishmi people, Tagin, Adi Animism, Buddhism, Christianity Lhotshampa Indo-European → Indo-Aryan → Nepali Bhutan Hinduism, Buddhism Li Kra–Dai...

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...

Portugal Indian community in Spain Indo-Fijian South Indians in Fiji Lhotshampa Muhajir people See also Bangladeshi diaspora, Indian diaspora, Nepalese...

number of Lhotshampa (Bhutanese Nepalis) refugees who were deported from Bhutan. Every year the Netherlands has been resettling around 100 Lhotshampa refugees...

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...

language speakers in India. In Bhutan, native Nepali speakers, known as Lhotshampa, are estimated at 35% of the population. This number includes displaced...

from Sri Lanka. In Tasmania, Hinduism is practised mainly by the ethnic Lhotshampa from Bhutan. Hinduism is also more popular among the Anglo-Australians...

assimilatory driglam namzha laws, and the expulsion and flight of thousands of Lhotshampa (ethnic Nepalese) refugees from Bhutan in the 1990s. Since the abdication...

2022. "Bangladesh". The World Factbook. 4 February 2022. "Population of Lhotshampas in Bhutan". UNHCR. 2004. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012...

allegedly assisted the government of Bhutan in the expulsion of the ethnic Lhotshampa population, occupying the land left behind by the refugees. In 1996 the...

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...

living across Bangladesh. Immigration in Bhutan by Nepalese settlers (Lhotshampa) began slowly towards the end of the 19th century. The government passed...

Gruyter. pp. 30–32. doi:10.1515/9783110428612. ISBN 9783110428612. "Lhotshampas". Minority Rights. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2023. Chatterjee...

Maldives. Bhutan's three main ethnic groups are the Ngalop, Sharchop, and Lhotshampa. The state religion is Buddhism. The official language is Dzongkha. Bhutan...