Bahundangi
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Bahundangi is a village development committee in Jhapa District
in the Mechi Zone
of south-eastern Nepal
. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
it had a population of 21,395 people living in 3908 individual households.
Bahundangi is a village development committee located at the easternmost part of jhapa district. It is bordered with India towards east and south and Illam district and mechi municipality towards north and west respectively. the total population is 22897 according to 2001 census. The majority of the people are farmers, mostly cultivating rice, tea, arecanut, ginger, etc. Because of its open border most people have free access to India where they go for shopping and medication to the adjoining Indian market naxalbari. To and fro illegal trade between the two areas is also present mostly in arecanut, ginger, paddy and timber. The village is remote with gravel connection to Kankarbhitta which is almost 9 kilometres from the bahundangi bazaar.
The main problem of the village is wild elephants which move to and fro between Nepal and India and destroy the crops and houses too. More than 20 people have been killed due to these elephants till now.
There is the majority of Brahman in Bahundangi. The term bahundangi is the combination of Bahun (Brahman, the most celeb cast of Nepal), and Dangi (also called Birta, Place). There are so many sub-castes in Bahundangi, such as Neupaney, Niraula, Budhathoki, Khanal, Poudel, Khadka, Basnet, Karki, etc.
Jhapa District
Jhapa District, a district of Mechi Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal. The district, with Chandragadhi as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,606 km² and has a population of 688,109.-Location:...
in the Mechi Zone
Mechi Zone
Mechi and other ethnic groups like Koche and Meche, and hill castes like Bahun and Chhetris.Mechi is divided into four districts:*Ilam District*Jhapa District*Panchthar District*Taplejung District...
of south-eastern Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics.Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level,...
it had a population of 21,395 people living in 3908 individual households.
Bahundangi is a village development committee located at the easternmost part of jhapa district. It is bordered with India towards east and south and Illam district and mechi municipality towards north and west respectively. the total population is 22897 according to 2001 census. The majority of the people are farmers, mostly cultivating rice, tea, arecanut, ginger, etc. Because of its open border most people have free access to India where they go for shopping and medication to the adjoining Indian market naxalbari. To and fro illegal trade between the two areas is also present mostly in arecanut, ginger, paddy and timber. The village is remote with gravel connection to Kankarbhitta which is almost 9 kilometres from the bahundangi bazaar.
The main problem of the village is wild elephants which move to and fro between Nepal and India and destroy the crops and houses too. More than 20 people have been killed due to these elephants till now.
There is the majority of Brahman in Bahundangi. The term bahundangi is the combination of Bahun (Brahman, the most celeb cast of Nepal), and Dangi (also called Birta, Place). There are so many sub-castes in Bahundangi, such as Neupaney, Niraula, Budhathoki, Khanal, Poudel, Khadka, Basnet, Karki, etc.