Yolmos are a sub-group of the Gorkha

Gorkha

Gurkha are people from Nepal who take their name from the 8th century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath.Gurkha, Ghurkha, or Gorkha may also refer to:-People:...

/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...

i ethnic group found in the Himalayan foothills. Yolmos are spread out over Nepal and parts of Sikkim

Sikkim

Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayan mountains...

 and Darjeeling district

Darjeeling district

Darjeeling District is the northernmost district of the state of West Bengal in eastern India in the foothills of the Himalayas. The district is famous for its beautiful hill stations and Darjeeling tea. Darjeeling is the district headquarters...

 in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Yolmos are also known as Kagatay as their traditional occupation was paper-making (kagat = paper). Yolmos believe their clan to originate from Hey-lambu near Kathmandu in 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...

. Etymologically, hey stands for potato

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

 and lambu means radish

Radish

The radish is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe, in pre-Roman times. They are grown and consumed throughout the world. Radishes have numerous varieties, varying in size, color and duration of required cultivation time...

 in the Yolmo patois, giving a vivid description of their early occupation as farmers. Their dress for the female members of the community is the Dorma and the Shayama, and the Suruwal and the Khanjak for the males members. Yolmos are predominantly Buddhist and speak in a tongue closely related to Tibetan

Tibetan language

The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...

. Yolmos are listed as Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal

Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal

Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal refers to scheduled tribes in the Indian state of West Bengal.As per the Constitution Order, 1950, the following were listed as scheduled tribes in West Bengal: 1. Asur, 2. Baiga, 3. Badia, Bediya, 4. Bhumji, 5. Bhutia, Sherpa, Toto, Dukpa, Kagatay, Tibetan, Yolmo,...

 and Sikkim

Sikkim

Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayan mountains...

, India.