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Indian Gorkhas or Bharatiya Gorkhas (Nepali: भारतीय गोर्खा) are Nepali-speaking people of India. The term Indian Gorkha tries to make a distinction between the Indian citizens of Gorkha (Nepali) ethnic group and the citizens of Nepal living in India.In the introduction to the book Gorkhas Imagined (2009) Prem Poddar makes an important point about the Gorkhas in Nepal versus the Gorkhas in India: the word ‘Gorkha’ (or the neologism ‘Gorkhaness’) as a self-descriptive term …
