If these major three castes (Khas Brahmin & Chhetris, and Newars) combine together their shares in the Government of Nepal, civil service employment is 89.2% in 1991. Get the famous, popular, surname of Nepal.
people's perception of their own social situation has more to do with geography and objective social class, than with their association with the groups that the state has based its internal social policy on.Participation of Khas-Brahmins in Civil Service is 41.3% in spite of its population size of less than 29.98%. The caste system defines social classes by a number of hierarchical endogamous groups often termed jaat. The Dalits who constitute 12.8 percent of the total population of the country have no representation in the higher echelons of power' (Gurung, H. 2006). In terms of earning/income generation, Newars have the highest per capita income of Rs. From a Bahun and Chhetri castes form the historical topmost state elites' circle with the significant majority of leadership in executive, legislative, judicial, constitutional, local administrative bodies, The population wise ranking of 125 Nepalese castes/ethnic groups as per Pages 191/192 of the total pdf or pages 156/157 in the scanned material shows Nepalese castes/ethnic groups
The population of Newars is around 5%, but its occupancy in Civil Service is more than one-thirds (33.2%), the population of Khas-Chhetris constitutes 17.6% but its participation is mere 14.7%. Nepal: Growth of a Nation. Specifically, Brahmin and Chhetri (Indo-Aryan) have advantages. Terai and Newar Brahmins and Kshatriyas were officially placed below their Khas equivalents. Nepalese are known by castes A caste is an elaborate and complex social system that combines elements of occupation, endogamy, culture, social class, tribe affiliation and political power. The Nepalese caste system broadly borrows the classical Hindu Chaturvarnashram model consisting of four broad social classes or varna: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Sudra.
The legal recognition to caste and all the discriminatory laws made on the grounds of caste were ceased. In 1962, a law was passed making it illegal to discriminate against other castes led all castes to be equally treated by the law.The caste system conjoints a structural class divide which persists, in which lower castes/ethnicities are generally socio-economically are not equal like those of higher castes/ethnicities. However given the global nature of the “caste system” it has in part become fragmented into slightly different meanings depending on the culture it’s embedded into. Since democracy was restored in 1990, however, the government has worked to improve the marginalization of these languages. See here the total Nepali Thar haru. Paper presented at National Dialogue Conference on ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, Kathmandu, 19–20 January 2005.
— Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS ). The caste system defines social classes by a number of hierarchical endogamous groups often termed The social structure of caste-origin Hill Hindu or It was an attempt to include the entire Hindu as well as non-Hindu population of Nepal of that time into a single hierarchic civic code from the perspective of the Khas rulers.
Nepal's diverse linguistic heritage evolved from three major language groups: Since Nepal's unification, various indigenous languages have come under threat of extinction as the government of Nepal has marginalized their use through strict policies designed to promote Nepali as the official language. Nepal Population Report, 2002. In Nepal, high castes dominate 91.2% among the prominent position in politics and bureaucracy. After the Rana regime, caste rules relating to food, drink and intercaste marriage were openly louted but the Muluki Ain had not been abrogated. Human Resources Development Research Center, Kathmandu.Gurung, H. (2005). Most notable contradiction is the inclusion of previously non-Hindu tribes "Adivasi Janajati" groups, as well as non-Nepalis including Muslims and Europeans into the hierarchical fold.Hierarchies of Major Caste/Ethnic Groups in Nepal according to Muluki Ain:Terai occupational castes – Dhobi, Halkhor, Chamar, Dushad, Dom, Musahars, etc. Indigenous languages which have gone extinct or are critically threatened include Byangsi, Chonkha, and Longaba. However, organizations of indigenous peoples claim a figure of more than 50%. 12,114 and Muslim ranks the lowest, Rs.11,014'In this process the left outs were oppressed class (Dalits), women, the poorest of the poor, powerless and the second class citizen and indigenous nationalities (Adivasi Janajatis).
Their dominance is reflected in education, administration and economical activities of the nation.
[10] [11] [note 1] [12] Today, even after the end of a 10-year-old Maoist conflict, the upper caste dominates every field in Nepal.
Similarly, the Janajati has 36.0% of the total population of the country, has representation of 7.1%.In recent times, following the overthrow of the Nepali monarchy and move towards a federal republic, ethnicity and caste have taken center stage – the indigenous peoples (MOPE (2002). The global definition of the caste system surrounds a classification of several hereditary groups of hierarchical social class.