Khas-kura Nepali and Cultural Consolidation in Darjeeling Hills: A Genesis
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2015-03
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Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History
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Bhattacharya, Dahlia
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University of North Bengal
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Ghosh, S. (2015). Khas-kura Nepali and Cultural Consolidation in Darjeeling Hills: A Genesis. Karatoya : North Bengal University Journal of History, 8, 131–137. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3926
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Ghosh, Sujit
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With the opening of Tea Industries by British tea planters gradually altered the racial
composition of Darjeeling hills. Immigration of plantation labor hailing from Nepal had .been a
major factor of the changing of racial composition of Darjeeling hills .. Multi-ethnic Nepali
community became the majority people in Darjeeling hills. The preponderance of Nepali in
Darjeeling hills, the Nepali or Khas-kura speaking people gradually conscious to unify and
consolidate on linguistic basis. An attempt has been made to search the emergence of culture,
literature and the process of cultural Consolidation of the Nepali or Khas-kura speaking people in
Darjeeling hills.
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8
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2229-4880
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131 - 137