Nepali Indian are people who are citizens or full-time residents of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 whose ethnic origins lie fully or partially in the South Asian nation of Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

. They speak many languages and dialects but Nepali language

Nepali language

Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar...

, also included as one of the official languages of India, is understood and spoken by all.

History

Certain areas of India were under the kingdom of Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

 before becoming a part of India during the British Raj

British Raj

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. For example, the Darjeeling

Darjeeling district

Darjeeling District is the northernmost district of the state of West Bengal in eastern India in the foothills of the Himalayas. The district is famous for its beautiful hill stations and Darjeeling tea. Darjeeling is the district headquarters...

 District of West Bengal

West Bengal

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 was a part of Sikkim

Sikkim

Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayan mountains...

 and for some time a part of Nepal. Sikkim, the only state in India with ethnic Nepali majority, became part of India in 1975. Other areas with significant Nepali population include Uttrakhand, Assam

Assam

Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...

, Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...

, Manipur

Manipur

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 and Meghalaya

Meghalaya

Meghalaya is a state in north-eastern India. The word "Meghalaya" literally means the Abode of Clouds in Sanskrit and other Indic languages. Meghalaya is a hilly strip in the eastern part of the country about 300 km long and 100 km wide, with a total area of about 8,700 sq mi . The...

. The Nepali population is also scattered throughout India in all major cities, especially Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

, Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

, Bangalore

Bangalore

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, Mumbai

Mumbai

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, Chennai

Chennai

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 Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam

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Notable Nepali Indians

• Durga Malla
  Durga Malla
  Major Durga Malla was the first Gorkha soldier of the Indian National Army[ to sacrifice his life for the cause of the nation.Major Malla was born in July 1913 at Doiwala near Dehra Dun. He was the eldest son of Nb Sub Ganga Malla. In 1930, when Mahatma Gandhi was leading the countrymen for...
  
   - Indian freedom fighter (his statue is in the Indian Parliament)
• Sister Nirmala
  Sister Nirmala
  Sister Nirmala succeeded Mother Teresa as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity in March 1997.She was born Nirmala Joshi into a Brahmin family in Ranchi . Her parents were Hindu Brahmins from Nepal...
  
   - Succeeded Mother Teresa
  Mother Teresa
  Mother Teresa , born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950...
  
   as Superior General of Missionaries of Charity
  Missionaries of Charity
  Missionaries of Charity is a Roman Catholic religious congregation established in 1950 by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, which consists of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries...
  
  
• Manisha Koirala
  Manisha Koirala
  Manisha B. Koirala is a Nepali-Indian actress who works in Indian films, as well as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist. Koirala has primarily worked in Hindi cinema, though she has appeared in several Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films as well...
  
   - Bollywood
  Bollywood
  Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
  
   actress
• Mala Sinha
  Mala Sinha
  Mala Sinha is an Indian actress, who has worked in Hindi, Bengali and Nepali films. Recognised for her acting talent and beauty, she went on to become a popular leading actress in Hindi films from the early fifties till late seventies...
  
   - Bollywood actress
• Louis Banks
  Louis Banks
  Louis Banks is a Grammy Award nominated film composer, record producer, jazz musician-keyboardist and singer...
  
   - Jazz musician
• Nar Bahadur Bhandari
  Nar Bahadur Bhandari
  Nar Bahadur Bhandari is a former chief minister of the state of Sikkim in India who governed the state from 1979 to 1994. He was the founder leader of Sikkim Sangram Parishad party.-Personal life:...
  
   - Former Chief Minister of Sikkim
• Pawan Kumar Chamling
  Pawan Kumar Chamling
  Pawan Kumar Chamling is the fifth chief minister of the Indian state of Sikkim. Chamling is the founder president of the Sikkim Democratic Front party, which has governed Sikkim for four successive terms since 1994, winning the 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009 state assembly elections.-Personal...
  
   - Chief Minister of Sikkim
• Sunil Chhetri - Footballer
• Binod Pradhan
  Binod Pradhan
  Binod Pradhan is an acclaimed Indian cinematographer whose creative visuals and cutting-edge imagery have left their mark on Indian cinema. Some his award-winning works include 1942 A Love Story, Devdas, Rang De Basanti, Mission Kashmir, Munna Bhai M.B.B.S...
  
   - Bollywood cinematographer
• Poornima (Sushma Shreshta) - Bollywood playback singer
• Tenzing Norgay
  Tenzing Norgay
  Padma Bhushan, Supradipta-Manyabara-Nepal-Tara Tenzing Norgay, GM born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer...
  
   - pioneering mountain climber
• Acharya Balkrishna
  Acharya Balkrishna
  Acharya Balkrishna is an Indian scholar and close associate of Swami Ramdev and was born on August 4.-Studies:Balkrishna studied various aspects of classical Indian and Hindu philosophy, such as yoga, ayurveda, Sanskrit language, vedas and upanisads under the guidance of Acharya Shri Baldevji in...
  
   - Close associate of Swami Ramdev
  Swami Ramdev
  Swami Ramdev is popularly known as Baba Ramdev. This young monk has attained immence popularity in a very short span of time. His yog-camps are attended by a large number of people in India and abroad...
  
  
• Prashant Tamang
  Prashant Tamang
  Prashant Tamang is a Darjeeling-based singer and actor. He was the winner of Indian Idol Season 3 in 2007. He is the first Indian from Nepali community to make it to the final rounds of Indian Idol and win it...
  
   - Indian Idol 3 winner, singer and actor
• Kapil Thapa - Indian Idol 4
  Indian Idol 4
  Registration for season 4 began on April 1, 2008. The winner of the show for this season was announced on 1 March 2009. The fourth season have Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar on the hot seats as they take judges' chair once again for the show...
  
   runners-up
• Jyoti Brahmin - Miss India Earth
  Miss India
  Miss India or Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India, one of the most recognized contests to produce international beauty queens in the 90s, which annually selects three winners to compete globally. It is organized by Femina, a women's magazine published by Bennett, Coleman & Co...
  
   2004
• Sanju Pradhan
  Sanju Pradhan
  Sanju Pradhan is an Indian footballer, who currently plays for Kingfisher East Bengal F.C. in the I-League.-East Bengal:...
  
   - Footballer
• Nirmal Chetri - Footballer
• Udit Narayan
  Udit Narayan
  -Career:King of melody, Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December, 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district , Nepal. His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.Narayan studied at P.B...
  
   - Popular Bollywood Singer
• Aditya Narayan
  Aditya Narayan
  Aditya Narayan Jha , born 6 August 1987, in Mumbai, India, commonly known as Aditya Narayan, is an actor, television host and music composer. He is the only child of Indian playback singer Udit Narayan and Deepa Narayan.-Early life:...
  
   - Bollywood Singer & Actor
• Karma Sherpa - Sa re ga ma pa contestant
• Prakriti Giri - Child singer ( Chote Ustaad)