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Limbu house in Hee- kengbari village in West Sikkim, Sikkim, India Sikuwa(in Nepali term) or a verandah of the house "Silam-Sakma" is the name of the symbol/logo that identifies the Limbu/Yakthung tribal community.
English: Vernacular house of the Limboo( Limbu, Yakthung, Subba) tribes of Sikkim, North-East of India. It is similar to the Limbu house in Eastern Nepal. This house exists in Hee- kengbari village in West Sikkim, Sikkim. Its atleast 75-80 years old. The house of Limboos is a symbolic representation of Yuma- a goddess of the Limboo community.
Sikkim (/ ˈ s ɪ k ɪ m / SIK-im; Nepali:) is a state in northeastern India. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Bhutan in the east, Koshi Province of Nepal in the west, and West Bengal in the south. Sikkim is also close to the Siliguri Corridor, which borders Bangladesh.
This also brought the already settled Nepalese under Sikkim. [9] The Newars, who are the business class of Nepali communities were brought to Sikkim by the ministers of Chogyal as they had the technology of minting coins and making pagoda-type house which were rather popular in Sikkim. They were also given permission to dig mines.
Bhutia woman with precious coral headdress, agate Buddhist prayer beads, turquoise earrings and silk chuba before 1915 in Darjeeling. The Bhutias (exonym; Nepali: भुटिया, "People from Tibet") or Drejongpas (endonym; Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་པ་, Wylie: Bras-ljongs-pa, THL: dre-jong pa, "People of the Rice Valley") are a Tibetan ethnic group native to the Indian ...
In Sikkim, Lepchas are known to use over 370 species of animals, fungi, and plants. [17] According to the Nepal Census of 2001, out of the 3,660 Lepcha in Nepal, 88.80% were Buddhists and 7.62% were Hindus. Many Lepchas in the Hills of Sikkim, Darjeeling and Kalimpong are Christians. [18] [4]
The Rai (Kirati: Khambu, Rāi; Devanagari: राई) is an ethnolinguistic group belonging to the Kirat family and primarily Tibeto-Burman linguistic ethnicity. [7] They mainly reside in the eastern parts of Nepal, the Indian states of Sikkim, West Bengal (predominantly Darjeeling and Kalimpong Hills) and in southwestern Bhutan.
The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee (SIBLAC) is a group striving for the political rights of ethnic groups of Sikkimese, Bhutia-Lepcha (BL) and Nepalis of Sikkimese origin. [8] In addition to the reservation for the BL in the Legislative Assembly of Sikkim, they argue for reservation in local body (panchayat) elections as well.