The Lepchas, one of the three major ethnic communities of the Sikkim-Darjeeling region, have started a movement for the inclusion of their language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. The ...

Days after the formation of the Gorkha hill council, Lepchas, the ethnic group of the Himalayas, are fighting against the "marginalization" of their community. KOLKATA/ DARJEELING: A new unrest is ...

Lepchas, an indigenous tribe in Darjeeling, have called for a boycott of the assembly polls. The Hills, which comprises the three seats of Kurseong, Kalimpong and Darjeeling, would go to polls in ...

HT Image The Lepchas - the indigenous tribals of the Darjeeling and surrounding Hills - have been demanding the setting up of the Lepcha Development Council (LDC) or Board for the protection of ...

Kalimpong, Aug. 26: Mamata Banerjee’s insistence that she be felicitated in Darjeeling for forming a development board for the Lepchas has put the community in the soup as they apprehend that this may ...

Lepchas of Kalimpong asked to be excluded from the political mishmash over the felicitation of the CM on September 3. DARJEELING: Finding themselves in an awkward situation after inviting chief ...

The Lepchas are monogamous ... of a Bhutea woman who once carried a grand piano up the Ghaut from Punkabari to Darjeeling in three days, and arrived on the third day quite fresh and unexhausted ...

However, in the context of West Bengal, the ethnopolitical mobilisations of the Lepchas of the Darjeeling Hills in their efforts to conserve their language and culture have seldom received state ...

The Nepali language has acted as a common thread connecting people of various tribal origins in the Darjeeling hills 1961: Nepali language is recognised as one of the Official Languages of West ...

Lepchas are the indigenous tribals of Sikkim and surrounding hills including Darjeeling. The shutdown was total but peaceful in the three hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseyong ...