Indigenous peoples of Sikkim

The indigenous people of Sikkim are the Lepchas and Limbus; the naturalized ethnic populations of Bhutias, Kiratis, and Indian Gorkha of Nepalese descendants who have an enduring presence in shaping the history of modern Sikkim. The indigeneity criteria for including all peoples of Sikkim and Darjeeling hills is a misnomer as it is clearly known that Lepchas are the first people who trace their origin and culture of their ethnogenesis to the historical and somewhat political geography of Sikkim history as is well documented by colonial and immigrant settler history.

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