Posted by: samir28 February 28, 2007
NEPAL SHOULD REMAIN HINDU COUNTRY
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The overall summary showing the percentages of major religions in Nepal is available on the site of National Planning commission, npc.gov.np. However, this detailed data showing the percentage of hindus in each ethnic group can be obtained from the "National Census of Nepal 2001 CD" which was produced by the Central Bureau of Statistics of His Majesty's Government of Nepal. The source of the aforementioned data is the same CD. It can be clearly seen that the percentage of hindus in some ethnic groups is very low. Only 7.69% of TAMANGS, 3.02% of SHERPAS, 21.06% of RAIS, 8.53% of LIMBUS and 24.51% of GURUNGS are HINDUS. Among these, only the TAMANGS form a sizeable ethnic minority. However this is not true for the NEWARS. 91.63% of the NEWARS are hindus, which is a very significant majority.
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