Reasons for Racial Discrimination in Nepal The group responsible for racial discrimination in Nepal is a minority in terms of population: a minority population is dominating a majority of the people. The dominant group consisting of male parbatiya (hill) Bahun and Chhetri consists of around 15 percent of the population only.3 Despite its minority population status, it is dominating rest of the society by controlling the state and societal apparatus with constitutional and legal manipulations and historic and current imposition of parbatiya Hindu Ideology, which severely disadvantages other communities, on the society. For instance, by declaring the state as Hindu in the Constitution, and following Hindu jurisprudence in laws of the country, it has imposed parbatiya Hindu value system in the society that facilitates domination of Indigenous Peoples, non-Hindu religious, dalit, madhesi and women groups. 3The Bahun-Chhetri population is around 31 percent. Since women are dominated, more so in the Bahun-Chhetri group, the dominant population, in reality, is half of it or approximately 15 percent. Bahunbad: The main factor of discrimination toward the marginalized groups, including the Indigenous Peoples, is Bahunbad. Bahunbad is defined as domination of hill 'upper-caste' Hindu males in the state apparatus and society, including the supposedly progressive realms such as media, academia and human rights groups, and formulation, implementation and legitimization of public policies and social attitudes that favor the dominant group through such domination in most of the influential realms of the society. Extensive domination has been made possible by adopting the hill Hindu religious ideology by the state, and communalization of the society by Hindu norms and values.