MaGuRaLi Beauties at this year Sakela Sili Ubhouli (Chandi) Festival in Aldershot, UK

The terminology 'Janajati' was heard in Nepal just before the 1990 people’ democratic movement, which ultimately established constitutional monarchy and multi-party democracy. The written form of
the word, 'Janajati' had appeared in the book entitled Janajati Issues in Nepal by Sitaram Tamang published before the1990 movement. Before this book, there was another book called Unseen
Realities in Nepali Politics in underground circulation. It was written by Gopal Gurung. In the later years of the Panchayat system, few politicians of Janajati origins started forming a secret group known as ‘Magurali’ denoting Magar, Gurung, Rai and Limbu, the four ethnic communities famous for being recruited in the British Gorkha army.~Nationalities, Movements and Nepali State by Keshab Man Shakya

"The extensive Hindunisation of many Magar communities meant that activists had to try to recover, or perhaps rather devise 'authentic' customs and then cajole their fellow Magars into accepting them. They only made limited progress and at the end of the 1980s most Magars probably still accepted the claim to higher status of clans that used Brahmin priest that did not eat pork or buffalo. It could also be
argued that, even were the activists to succeed in reversing this value system, they would still only be substituting for the old hierachy a new one dominated by the revalitlist writing Magar histories and
publishing old Magar texts. The pace of ethnic and caste mobilization increased markedly during the 1980s, partly because of the loosening of restraints on political activity but also because the government had itself been trying to enlist both ethnic minorities and lower-caste groups in support of Panchayat system. As well as the establihment of new organizations and publications serving individual groups, there were efforts at colloboration. "Magurali' (standing for 'Magar-Gurung-Rai-Limbu'), an informal grouping of hill minorities, emerged even before the 1980 referendum. ~ A History of Nepal by John Whelpton

Points to be taken:
The four group Magar, Gurung, Rai and Limbu were classified under Namasine(Unslavable) matawalis (liquor drinkers) in Muluki Ain (National Code of Nepal) of 1854 as qouted by J.B Rana "yo char matwali jaat sanga kharab na gara"!

"The more prominent of the tribal groups such as the Magar, Gurung, Rai and the Limbu, who lived as agriculturists and soldiers in the army, were accorded the superior rank of the namasine matawali." by Prayag Raj Sharma (The State and Society in Nepal : Historical Foundations and Contemporary Trends) chpt9. Nepal: Hindu-Tribal Interface