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What is the meaning of Gorkha?
(go͝or′kə) 1. A member of a Rajput ethnic group predominant in Nepal. 2. A member of this people serving in the British or Indian armies.
How is Sai described in inheritance of loss?
Sai is an orphaned teenager who lives in Kalimpong with her grandfather, the judge. Kalimpong is a small town in northern India. Before living with her grandfather, she lived in a convent school. At the convent school, she learned English as well as Western values and appreciation of all things English.
What is the demand for Gorkhaland state?
In the plainest of terms, the demand for Gorkhaland state is an attempt on the part of people from Darjeeling hills, Terai and Dooars to do away with this “crisis of identity” that Gorkhas across India have and have had to face and to assert our Indian Identity.
What is the history of the Gorkhaland movement?
However, the agitation by Subhash Ghising led Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), further brought this issue in focus and the term “Gorkhaland” was coined in 1980. The Gorkhaland Movement is chiefly concerned with the demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland which falls under the Darjeeling Hills of West Bengal.
What is the history of Darjeeling demand for Gorkhaland?
The demand of Darjeeling as a separate administrative region dates back to 1907. But, the term “ Gorkhaland ” was coined recently, in the 1980s, by Subhash Ghising, the founder of Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF).
What are the main causes of the Gorkhaland issue?
1 Differences in ethnicity, culture and language. 2 Nepali-Indian Gorkha ethnic culture is different from the Bengali culture. 3 Poverty, skewed development policies and politicisation of the issue. 4 According to some scholars, it was a failure of governance combined with politicisation that bred the Gorkhaland issue.