Vijaya Nagar is a small village in Chitwan district of 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...

. It is the ward number 8 of the Mangalpur VDC. It's close to Narayani river and lies about ten kilometers west from the city of Narayangarh and about 3 kilometers away from Rampur.

History

Before the 1950s, the place was a part of a huge and dense jungle known as Charkoshe-Jhaadi teeming with all kinds of wild animals and plants including Royal Bengal Tigers, one-horned rhinoceros

Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros , also known as rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia....

es, pythons, bear

Bear

Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern...

s, antelope

Antelope

Antelope is a term referring to many even-toed ungulate species indigenous to various regions in Africa and Eurasia. Antelopes comprise a miscellaneous group within the family Bovidae, encompassing those old-world species that are neither cattle, sheep, buffalo, bison, nor goats...

s, and so on, with not a single human being daring to settle in there. Men coming down from the high mountain regions like Lamjung, Tanahun/Tanhun, Gorkha

Gorkha District

Gorkha District of 288,134. It is the location of the Manakamana Temple. Also, the temples of great sage Gorakh Nath and goddess Gorakh Kali temple is located in district, after which the district got its name. Four major rivers run within and along it, they are Chepe, Daraudi, Marsyangdi and...

 etc., started clearing jungles to make space for a new place to live in and to make land for the essential agriculture.

Today, it is one of the rapidly growing point of the whole Mangalpur VDC area. It has got a secondary school - Shree Durga Madhyamic Vidyalaya or Shree Durga Secondary Highschool, one English medium primary school, a diary factory, a popular co-operative organisation of the local farmers and business men, one youth-club for social work and services and so on.

Demographics

This village is a place where one can see a mixture of people from different cultures, ethnicities and origins. There are Rais

Rai (ethnic group)

The Rai are one of Nepal's most ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic groups. They were Raya meaning king. Once someone was recognized as a ruler then Hindus awarded the title Raja, Rai, Raya, Malla etc. When the king Pritivi Narayan Shah couldn't defeat Kirant king , he somehow took them in...

, Magars, Gurungs, Tamangs, Newars and Tharus with their own mother tongues in addition to the people of different castes whose mother tongue is the proper Nepali language

Nepali language

Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar...

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