Magars is the largest group among the indigenous peoples and nationalities of nepal. They are mainly seettled in Gandaki, Lumbini, Dhaulagiri, Rapti and Bheri. Magars entered Nepal around 1100 BCE from eastern part, may be from Burma or Sikkim. Finally they have settled in along Kali Gandaki, Maryangdi and Rapti basin. They are belongs a Tibeto-Burman family, contrary to the fact which is mentioned in the William Brook Northy, book The Gurkhas, (This is one of the poorly written book I have ever gone through, please Mr. William if u don't have knowledge about Nepal please dont write, better write about ur own people, first go and study the facts, ok) that they come from India. They are one of the early settler in Nepal, and at that time they were neither Hindu nor Buddhist (Which in fact I think we are not both of them till now, both the religion has been forced on us, our so called Magar scholars are now claiming that Magars are Buddhist, these people could not even find there own identity, how they will guide the community). "Magars must have come from their place by way of tibet and since they show no trace of Buddhism in their religios activities, they most likely arrived in Nepal before Buddhism was introduced to Tibet in the seventh Century"(1933:11). Some Budhamagar has written that Magars had came from caves and some has mentioned that there were two brothers called Magars, and all this has been written by some Magar scholars. Magars had very strong presence in their respective region in Medivel period, hence the name Athara and Barah Magarat come into existence ( However we can discuss on this in detail, later).
I will keep on updating it if I will get more Facts and History.
I will keep on updating it if I will get more Facts and History.
