THE YAKHA: CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN ...

PanciWa t
Ankhibhui
Maml i ng
Tamaphok
Madi Mulkharka
Baneswar
Kharang
Mawad in
% / N Rai
30.5% / 1209
16.2% / 426
27.8% / 943
20.5% / 677
17.7% / 424
28.0% / 1082
27.7% / 644
Wards with highest % / N Rai
1 - 62.9% / 263
3 - 53.2% / 314
7 - 47.5% / 242
4 - 83.6% / 199
5 - 40.75 / 148
5 - 95.6% / 415
6 - 40.8% / 183
4 - 69.3% / 201
6 - 34.5% / 161
5 - 96. 1% / 198
8 - 43.8% / 95
9 - 41.9% / 129
2 - 48.5% / 253
3 - 51.1% / 193
6 - 50.9% / 206
2 - 50.9% / 206
4 - 71.1% / 180
5 - 44.7% / 176 -
Fig. 3.1: Proportion of 'Rail (presumably mainly Yakha) in selected
pancdvats
There were also, of course, pockets of Yakha in other pancgvats not
included in this list, since people calling themselves Yakha were widely
distributed across the hills and, to a lesser and more historically
recent extent, the plains of East Nepal. Looking across the region as a
whole, however, the Yakha pockets all seemed to be located east of the
Arun River, with the greatest concentrations in the two northernmost
pancavats of Dhankuta district and the four southernmost pancdyats of
Sankhuwasabha (see Map 3). We were told about a Yakha population in
Yangre/Chaubise (Rajarani pancayat, a pancavat in the southern part of
Dhankuta district) which appeared to be something of an anomaly, as does
a group of 70 households in Angna pancdvat, Panchthar district (in