Photos Descendants of Nepalese Gurkha invaders get Chinese citizenship in Tibet-Nepal border region in Tibet

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Descendants of Nepalese Gurkha invaders get Chinese citizenship in Tibet-Nepal border region in Tibet​

Daman villege, Daman people, descendants of Nepalese Gurkha army, closely related to Tamang people of Nepal. Previously stateless, they were granted Chinese citizenship in 2003.

History​

In 1792, after the Sino-Gorkha war, hundreds of Gorkha soldiers were lost in the China-Nepal border and then resided there. The Daman people are allegedly the descendants of the Gorkha soldiers, and there have been the 6th or 7th generations since then.

Daman people were once without a nationality (stateless) before the State Council of China officially approved them as Chinese citizens in 2003. Since then, Daman people have been treated the same as Tibetan by the government.

 

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Chinese government upgrades Daman houses for the 4th time, all costs covered by the government, the whole rebuild project will be completed and people can move in by the end of October. 2023

 

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Descendants of Nepalese Gurkha invaders, not far from their village lies the cemetary of the fallen soldiers of Qing dynasty who died defending the Chinese territory against these aggressors.

 

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They also take good care of Anti Nepalese invasion war museum and Qing dynasty solider cemetery.
The war was fought in 1791, Qing troops routed Nepalese invading army and drove them back all the way to Kathmandu.

 

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Chinese Qing army graves near the village

The war was fought in 1791, Qing troops routed Nepalese invading army and drove them back all the way to Kathmandu.

 

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Daman villagers pay respect to the inspecting Panchen lama

 

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Daman village. China allowed them to become Chinese citizens but refuses to recognize them as a separately listed new ethnicity in China.