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Posted
on 29-May-02 11:12 PM
Read 'Gorkha Sansar',
one of the first newspapers in Nepali,
published from Dehra Dun.
Weekly issues from
4 November 1926 to 12 March 1929
Now, available on the Net.
A collaboration between
the Digital South Asia Library and
the Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Patan Dhoka.
GO TO:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=gorkha_sansar
The Gorkha Sansar was a ground-breaking effort by Thakur Chandan
Singh, a Gorkha (Nepali) intellectual from Dehradun, India. Thakur Chandan
Singh was the son-in-law of the deposed Commander in Chief of Nepal, General
Khadga Shumshere. Khadga was exiled to Palpa by his elder brother, Maharaja
Bir.
He later fled to British India and was interned in Sauger (in
present-day Madhya Pradesh) with the help of the British Indian Government. As a
son-n-law of an exile Singh was also listed as a rebel by the Nepal
Court.
Singh helped to found the Gorkha League in India.
The Gorkha Sansar focused on the upliftment of the Nepali Gurkha
diaspora, but also addressed the residents of Nepal. The paper was banned
inside of Nepal but remained a popular (and in fact the only) medium of
expression for the diaspora community of the time.
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