Dear AIG Sa'p,
As discussed today, for your
information (FYI) on linguistic toponomic interpretation there. Particularly, on
the Magars themselves.
Regards B. K. Rana
Dear All,
Some of my friends including senior
professors have suggested me to circulate this letter again to other
recipients also. I have therefore sent it to your address there. This article
was prepared for a promising young scholar - Mahendra Lawoti, who is doing a
PhD, at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. I hope you will enjoy reading this
letter.20Regards,
B. K.Rana Linguistic Anthropologist
Tel: 479 054
Dear Lawotiji,
1) All Ranas in your list were Magars - I am
confident. I have reasons. Junga Bahadur declared himself a 'Rana' in
about 1910 -1912 BS (I need more time to fix the exact date). Before that he
was Kunwar (Magar?). Therefore, the Ranas in the list were before Junga - or
there were other Rana Magars nearly 1000 years ago (as evidence show us
it, we are trying to figure out more) and they had nothing to do with Rajputs
of the plains ! What I mean here is that there were Rana Magars and Thapa
Magars in Gorkha and Central Nepal
before Junga Bahadur came to power in 1903 BS. They were the political leaders
there. Since all Ranas and Thapas hailed from Gorkha and Central
Nepal - they virtually were none other than Magars by ethnicity.
Bhimsen Thapa was from Gorkha and an individual can't become otherwise when he
comes out from a Magar
Village. This is why
Magars believe him to be a Magar. But, today's elite Thapa
(Chhetris) of Kathmandu and of rural Nepal do not wish to be seen as a
Magar. Because Magars eat pork !!! (But, Pun Magars do not eat any
pork). And also they are impoverished ones having not been able to come to the
mainstream; after the cruel killing of Abhiman Singh Rana Magar, a prominent
figure for prime ministership, in Kot Massacre (1846 AD) and hanging of
Martyr (Magars believe him to be the first Martyr of Nepal) Lakhan Thapa
Magar II in 1933 BS by Junga Bahadur !!! Ram Shah's effort to establish himself
a descendant of Mewad (Chittaur) Household and Junga's similar attempt to be of
the Maharana Pratap pedigree have been lambasted by most historians including
Dor Bahadur Bista ( 1991).
बम कुमारी बुढा मगर
कमला थापा मगर