Mohammad Estiyak Rai is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum. In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election he was elected from the Banke-2 constituency, winning 19396 votes.The Rai previously was just the post for the person to collect tax.The Rai, are the Khambu (people of Khumbu region) are one of Nepal's most ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic groups. The Rai belong to the Kirati group or the Kirat confederation that includes Limbu, Sunuwar, Yakkha, Dhimal, ethnic groups.
According to Professor Dor Bahadur Bista (anthropologist, Tribhuvan University) and late Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterji (linguist and Kiratologist, Calcutta University) Kirats migrated from the east via north Burma and Assam along the mid-hills (lower mountains) with their pigs in ancient times.(ref.30,31).
According to Chatterji and other prominent linguists, the Rai, Limbu, and Dhimal languages are pronominalised (Austric/Kol influence) strongly indicating earliest migratory wave of these peoples compared to other Tibeto-Burmans whose languages are non-pronominalised.(ref.31)
The traditional homeland of the Rai extends across Solukhumbu, Okhaldhunga (Wallo Kirat or Near Kirat), home of the Nachhiring, Bahing, Wambule subgroups), Khotang, Bhojpur and the Udayapur districts (Majh Kirat or Central Kirat), home of Bantawa, Chamling etc. in the northeastern hilly/mountainous region of Nepal, west of the Arun River in the Sun Kosi River watershed. Rais are also found in significant numbers in the Indian state of Sikkim and in the northern West Bengal towns of Kalimpong and Darjeeling.
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Mangpa (Priests) of RaiAccording to Nepal's 2001 census, there are 635,751 Rai(Khambu) in Nepal which represents 2.79% of the total population. Of this number, 70.89% declared themseleves as practising the traditional (Kiranti/Kirant) religion and 25.00% declared themselves as Hindu. Yakkha were measured as a separate ethnic group of which 81.43% were Kirant and 14.17% were Hindu.[1] The Rai are divided into many different
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