Chepang people
The Chepang (Nepali: चेपाङ जाति), also known as Chewang,[3] are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group from the rugged ridges of the Mahabharat mountain range of central Nepal.[4] With increasing populations, lack of arable land and few irrigation options, malnutrition has been a historic problem for the Chepang despite forest supplements.[5] Chepang men and women are basically egalitarian and no social ranking exists as it does in caste Nepalese society.The severe topography, however, has made permanent farming difficult (and usually insufficient), and the forest has remained an important (although decreasingly so) source of food for the Chepang.More than 50 per cent of the people killed were from marginalised communities ranked low in the Human Development Index (HDI).
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