Lhotshampa Erotic

Lhotshampas (also called Nepali Bhutanese) comprise approximately 18% of the Bhutanese resident population per 2017 estimates — approximately 140,000+ in Bhutan plus the substantial historic refugee population resettled in third countries since 2008. The community is the Nepali-speaking Hindu population of southern Bhutan (the Bhutanese terai districts of Samtse, Chukha, Dagana, Tsirang, Sarpang, Samdrup Jongkhar). The community descends from late-19th and early-20th c. Nepali migration to the Bhutanese terai for agricultural labor under the British-influenced colonial-era development of the southern foothill agricultural zones. The community was subject to substantial 1990-1993 expulsion under the One Nation One People policy that the Bhutanese government implemented to enforce Drukpa cultural conformity — approximately 100,000+ Lhotshampa fled to Nepal as refugees, with refugee camps established in Jhapa and Morang districts of southeastern Nepal. The resulting Bhutanese refugee crisis was substantially resolved through 2008-2017 third-country resettlement to the United States (approximately 92,000 resettled), Canada (~7,000), Australia (~6,500), Norway (~600), the Netherlands (~330), Denmark, and the United Kingdom — totaling approximately 113,000 Bhutanese refugees resettled. The community in third-country diaspora has maintained substantial cultural and political identity.