A policy born of apprehensions

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History, culture and politics set the Lhotshampa and the Drukpa apart. The Drukpa has decided to act, but can he prevail in the long term?

It was Kazi Ugen Dorii — the chief of the King´shouse hold the Royal Chamberlain (Gongzim) and the Governor (Jongpon) of western Bhutan, who encouraged large scale Nepali settlementin the southwestern partofthe country in the lastdecades of the 19th century. British diplomat Charles Bell found 14,000 Nepalis on the Torsa river bordering India in 1903. In no time, the land-hungry Nepali cleared the thick vegetation and organised themselves as cultivators in the southern Duars.

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