Migrating Nepalis behaving high and mighty...


Never having been subject to British rule, Nepal’s historical trajectory has been quite different from its South Asian neighbours.

Yet, geography ensured that Nepalis themselves could not remain unaffected by developments in colonial India, including one of its defining features – the dispersal of South Asians across the globe. As a result, wherever migrants from the subcontinent (or, Indians, as they are generally known) can be found, there are high chances that Nepalis would be among them.

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