Tihar. Lhotshampas speak Nepali as their first language. Samchi, Chirang and Geylegphug are southern dzongkhags that have a large Lhotshampa community...

Refugee Studies. 9 (4): 397–420. doi:10.1093/jrs/9.4.397. "Chronology for Lhotshampas in Bhutan". Minorities at Risk Project. 2004. "Background and History:...

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

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...

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

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...

minority Newars, Tharus, Tamangs, Gurungs, Limbus, Rais, Magar, Madhesis, Lhotshampas, Sherpas, and others, as of American Nepalese Convention Survey of 2018...

to the Pew Research Center 2010. It is followed mainly by the ethnic Lhotshampa. The Shaivite, Vaishnavite, Shakta, Ganapathi, Puranic, and Vedic schools...

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...

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

Ngalop of western and northern Bhutan, the Sharchop of eastern Bhutan, the Lhotshampa concentrated in southern Bhutan, and Bhutanese tribal and aboriginal peoples...

A person from the southern part of a state or country; for example: Lhotshampas, also called Southerners, ethnically Nepalese residents of southern Bhutan...

traditional Nepali "costume" that might otherwise have been worn by Lhotshampas. Violent unrest and anti-government protests occurred in 1990 within...

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...

spoken along Bhutan's borders and among the primarily Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa community in South and East Bhutan. Chöke (or Classical Tibetan) is the...

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

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

Jamaat-e-Islami, and the Urdu-speaking Biharis. Ethnic cleansing of Lhotshampa was carried out during the reign of King Jigme Singye Wangchuk in the...

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

conflict and after in 1993 and 1998. The mass expulsion of southern Lhotshampas (Bhutanese of Nepalese origin) by the northern Druk majority in Bhutan...

government implemented strict restrictions on the country's ethnically Nepali Lhotshampa population and implemented internal border control policies to restrict...

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...

population are the Ngalops, which make up the majority, the Sharchops, the Lhotshampas, and the aboriginal or indigenous tribal peoples living in villages and...

policy and their discrimination against ethnic minorities, known as Lhotshampas. Since her exile, she has formed the Bhutanese Refugees Aid for Victims...

moved through the southern regions of the country, home to most of the Lhotshampas, forcing them from their homes and across the southern border with India...

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

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...

Duars follow Animism. Ethnic groups in Bhutan Monpa people Ngalop people Lhotshampa Toto people Demographics of Bhutan Schottli, Jivanta; Mitra, Subrata K...

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