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17-466: The Bhotiyas of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand identify as Raghuvanshi Rajput and prefer to be referred as Thakur or Rajvanshi . The Bhotiya may be the original immigrants to north Oudh in the period of Nawab Asaf-Ud-Dowlah (1775 to 1797). The Bhotiya people are closely related to several other groups and ethnic boundaries are porous. One group is the Bhutia , the main ethnolinguistic group of

34-605: Is sez . The traditional catalyzing agent used in the preparation of fermented foods and beverages is called balam in the Kumaon Division and balma in Garhwal Division . A cottage wool industry employs many Bhotiya. Women weave pattu , a coarse woolen serge. Plants are collected to make natural dyes for coloring the wool. The Central Bureau of Statistics of Nepal classifies the Bhotiya (called Bhote in

51-736: Is a legendary Indian dynasty, primarily featured in Hindu scriptures such as the Itihasa s and the Purana s . It is considered to be an offshoot of the Sūryavaṃśa or the Ikshvaku dynasty lineage of kings, tracing its ancestry to the sun deity Surya . Kings of the Raghuvaṃśa line are referred to as Raghuvanshi or Raghuvaṃśī . The dynasty is named after Raghu , a legendary king who protected

68-561: Is a tool for winnowing grain from chaff while removing dirt and dust too. They have been used traditionally in a number of civilizations for centuries, and are still in use today in some countries. Unprocessed grain, mixed with impurities like dirt or inedible husks, is placed on the basket. The basket is then lifted and shaken, which separates out lighter particles (usually inedible husks) from heavier particles (the grain). The process can benefit from mild wind, which can carry away lighter particles. The λικνον ( liknon ) appears in

85-541: Is admitted to the house. Rice, silver or gold is put in the hands of the bridegroom, which he passes on to the bride. She places them in a winnowing fan , and hands them as a present to the wife of the barber . This ceremony is known as Karj Bharna . A man may have not more than three wives. The first wife is the head wife, and she inherits an additional one tenth of the husband's estate. The Bhotiyas have distinctive funerary traditions. Young children who die of cholera or snakebite are buried while others are cremated. There

102-452: Is no fixed burial ground, and no ceremonies are performed at the time of burial. The wealthy keep the ashes for lowal to several streams, while others bury them. After cremation, a stalk of kusha (grass) is fixed in the ground near a tank of water and sesamum is poured on it for ten days. This makes it a refuge for the deceased's spirit until the rites are completed. In Uttarakhand , particularly Chamoli , Pithoragarh and Uttarkashi ,

119-667: Is not included in the languages with official status in India . The Bhotiya, tribe people are native (indigenous) people belonging to Himalayan Belt. In Nepal they live in the northern and eastern regions of Nepal , where they and other Tibetans are the region's autochthonous (indigenous) people. By the 2001 census of Nepal, they number 27,230. The Bhotiya also live in the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir , Himachal Pradesh , Uttarakhand , Uttar Pradesh , West Bengal , Sikkim , Assam , Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura . In Uttar Pradesh ,

136-661: The Iliad (5.4999). These have been used in India from centuries and still see widespread contemporary use. They are known as soup in Hindi and dala in Bangla. In West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, and Bihar the tool is also used to welcome the groom during marriage ceremonies. They are known as mino or mi ( 箕 ) . These are known as k'i ( Korean :  키 ; Hanja :  簸 ) in Korea, and were used throughout

153-491: The Bhotiya are semi-nomadic, migratory pastoralists, moving about the border lands between India and Tibet . They are also traders in the Himilayas for products such as cereal, wool, and salt. Now, some are farmers and others are merchants of stones, gems, and herbs. The Bhotiya are experienced in the use of medicinal plants. The local fermented beverages are jan (a local beer), and daru . A local fermented food stuff

170-801: The Bhotiya live in the Bahraich , Gonda , Lakhimpur , Lucknow , Barabanki , Kanpur Nagar , Kanpur Dehat , and Kheri districts. Bhotiya have six recognizable sub-groups: the Bhot , Bhotiya, the Bhutia of Sikkim , the Tibbati (of Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh), the Bhut, the Gyakar Khampa of Khimling, Bhidang of Uttarakhand. In the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh,

187-402: The Bhotiya people have Scheduled Tribe status. In Uttarakhand, the Bhotiya are a Scheduled Tribe under the "Schedule caste order 1950, the constitutional Scheduled tribe (Uttar Pradesh) 1967 SC/ST." The Constitution of India recognizes the Bhotiya. Bhotiya marriages are similar to Hindu weddings . When the bride's palanquin arrives at her husband's house, gods are worshipped and then she

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204-531: The Nepal census) as a subgroup within the broader social group of Mountain/Hill Janajati. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census , 13,397 people (0.1% of the population of Nepal) were Bhotiya. The frequency of Bhotiya people by province was as follows: The frequency of Bhotiya people was higher than national average (0.1%) in the following districts: Raghuvanshi Raghuvanshi ( Sanskrit : रघुवंशी ) or Raghuvaṃśa ( Sanskrit : रघुवंश ) or Raghukula

221-784: The adjacent areas of India including the Tibetans and Sherpas . In Nepal, Bhotiya is 0.1 percent of the population. They live in villages throughout the Himalayas. The language of the Bhotiya people is called "Bhoti" or "Bhotia", but is in fact a cover term for a wide variety of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in India. It is usually written in the Tibetan script . Bhoti and Bhotia is spoken in Himachal Pradesh , Sikkim , Uttarakhand , Arunachal Pradesh , Bhutan , Nepal , Tibet , and parts of Pakistan and West Bengal . Bhoti

238-409: The child into compliance, as neighbors would recognize why the child was knocking on their door. In South Gyeongsang Province , there was a tradition where people avoided buying the baskets on the first market day of each lunar year, as the baskets, as they would with husks, would allow good luck to escape. A tradition on Jeju Island involved a type of divination, where on Lunar New Year's Eve ,

255-936: The northern part of the Indian state of Sikkim . A second is the Uttarakhand Bhotiya of the upper Himalayan valleys of the Kumaon and the Garhwal divisions of Uttarakhand . These include the Shauka tribe of Kumaon, the Tolchhas and the Marchhas of Garhwal, Gyagar Khampa of Khimling, Bhidang. A third related group are the Dzongkha speaking Ngalop people , the main ethnolinguistic group of Bhutan . The Bhotiya are also related to several dispersed groups in Nepal and

272-463: The region for centuries. There was some regional variation in what materials the k'i were constructed from, with southern regions using primarily bamboo instead of wicker . There is a folk tradition where children who are unable to adequately control when they urinate (particularly while sleeping ) are made to wear the k'i on their head, then sent to knock on the doors of their neighbors and ask for salt. This served to publicly embarrass

289-514: The sacrificial horse of ashvamedha from Indra . Raghuvaṃśī kings include Mandhata , Harishchandra , Sagara , Bhagiratha , Dilīpa , Raghu , Aja , Dasharatha and Rama . Kalidasa 's work, Raghuvaṃśa , narrates the epic of the Raghuvaṃśa in 19 sargas ( cantos ). Several legendary kings came from the Solar dynasty and are referred to as Raghuvaṃśa after their ancestor, the king Raghu. Winnowing fan A winnowing basket or fan

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