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13-466: 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

26-605: 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

39-736: 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

52-541: 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

65-452: 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 ,

78-667: 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 ,

91-491: 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

104-801: 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,

117-402: 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

130-531: 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

143-784: 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

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156-936: 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

169-529: 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 Too Many Requests If you report this error to

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