Dangi (people)

Dangi is a Hindu community caste native to mid western Nepal.[1] Their traditional occupation was farming. They speak several languages, but Nepali language is the most commonly understood language among them.

For the Korean calendar era, see Korean calendar. For the village in Iran, see Dangi, Iran.

Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939–2015) was awarded the title of shortest man in the world, after his height was measured in February 2012.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

References
  1. Singh 1998, p. 301.
  2. Bhattacharya 1979, p. 19.
  3. David Halloran Lumsdaine (13 March 2009). Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Asia. Oxford University Press. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-0-19-029474-8.
  4. Harry Goulbourne (2001). Race and Ethnicity: Racism : exclusion and privilege. Taylor & Francis. pp. 96–. ISBN 978-0-415-22502-1.
  5. The Eastern Anthropologist. Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society. 1968.
  6. Gujarat (India) (1971). Gujarat State Gazetteers: Dangs. Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State.
  7. Asgharali Engineer (2002). Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for Asghar Ali Engineer. Orient Blackswan. pp. 124–. ISBN 978-81-250-2221-3.
  8. P. M. Katare; B. C. Barik (2002). Development, Deprivation, and Human Rights Violation. Rawat Publications. ISBN 978-81-7033-704-1.
  9. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie. E. Schweizerbart'sche. December 1985.

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