Religion of Rai

Historians today are convinced that a widespread cultural conflict took place in the eastern Himalayan region between the indigenous inhabitants – called the Kirat – and the Tibetan migrant population, reaching a climax during the 18th and 19th centuries. Another wave of political and cultural conflict, between Gorkhali
GorkhaliGorkhali was a Nepali language-language weekly newspaper published in Varanasi, India. It began publication in 1919. Devi Prasad Sapkota was the editor of the newspaper.... and Kirat ideals, surfaced in the Kirat region of present-day Nepal during the last quarter of the 18th century. A collection of manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries, till now unpublished and unstudied by historians, have made possible a new understanding of this conflict. These historical sources are among those collected by Brian Houghton Hodgson
Brian Houghton HodgsonBrian Houghton Hodgson was an earlynatural history and ethnologist working in British India and Nepal where hewas an England civil servant.... – a British diplomat and self-trained Orientalist appointed to the Kathmandu
KathmanduKathmandu is the Capital and the largest metropolis city of Nepal. The city is situated in Kathmandu Valley that also contains two other cities - Patan, Nepal and Bhaktapur.... court during the second quarter of the 19th century – and his principal research aide, the Newar
NewarThe Newa are the Indigenous peoples of Asia people of Nepal Kathmandu Valley. Newars are a linguistic community with Tibeto-Burman and Indo ethnictiy/race, bound together by a common language.... scholar Khardar Jitmohan.