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<DIV>Magar language is a TB language. The central Magar and Kham Magar languages are different. The Kaike Magar language is even different.</DIV>
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<DIV>'Langhali' [not LAGghalI] is a Central Magar Language term meaning 'villager or neighbour' [Langha > village with prefix ali> of or belonging to]. It means of the village. </DIV>
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<DIV>We have been able to found a voluntary social organization in New York - Langhali Association USA. last year. </DIV>
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<DIV>I myself is a Magar and hence 'Langhali' also.. There are lot more other books that you have cited. Does one have to accept whatever otsiders write ?</DIV>
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<DIV>As far as I understand, the Magars [Langhalis] have never claimed that Magyars are their ancestors. But a team of the Magyars of Hungary have visited in early 90s in search of their ancestors. </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“In search for his ancestors, a Hungarian researcher, Alexander Choma De Korus [?], while en route via Lhasha of Tibet to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><st1:place>Mongolia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, died in <st1:City><st1:place>Darjeeling</st1:place></st1:City> in 1842. There is a memorial tablet erected in honor of him in <st1:City><st1:place>Darjeeling</st1:place></st1:City>” - one of the team members had written in a faxed message to me also.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Another Hungarian scholar Gyula Laszlo [The Magyars: Their Life and Civilization 1996] has ruled out any nearness between Magars and Magyars.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both Dor Bahadur Bista ‘Fatalism and Development [1994] and F. B. Hamilton “An Account of the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Kingdom</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Nepal</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>’ [1819] write Magars and the current Shah kings are of same origin. </FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>We also believe in it as both the Shah Kings and Magars share exactly same cultures eve today. The priests in the king’s guardian deity are always a Magar. There are lots of stuff on Magars and others in Brian Hodgson’s Essays on the Language, Literature and Religion of Nepal and Tibet [1857]. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Perceval Landon’s <st1:country-region><st1:place>Nepal</st1:place></st1:country-region> [1928], Michael Oppitz’s research article <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- The Wild Boar and the Plough: Origin Stories of the <st1:place>Northern Magars</st1:place> – in Kailash [1983]. Eden Vansittart has written profoundly on Magars in his ‘The Gurkhas’ [1906]. Recently, John Whelpton has also written in his book ‘King Soldiers & Priests in Nepalese Politics and the Rise of Jung Bahadur [1830-1857] published in 1991.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The northern Magars are subdivided into Buda, Gharti, Pun and Roka. Some writers have written the Huns invaded <st1:country-region><st1:place>Nepal</st1:place></st1:country-region> and they became ‘Pun’. </FONT></P>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Allen W Thrasher <athr@loc.gov></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">George van Driem, Languages of the Himalayas, Brill, 2001 (Handbuch der Orientalistik, Section 2. India. vol. 10), v. 2, p. 780, has this to say (I have rendered his standard transliteration into Harvard-Kyoto):<BR><BR>"Before the 1990 revolution, a rare Magar periodical entitled LaGghalI [sic: it should be LAGghalI- AT] appeared irregularly. In the atmosphere of political fervour prevailing in the years following the Nepalese revolution of 1990, various booklets were published which made fantastic claims. One such claim [identified BrAhmI script as of Magar origin]. Another claim was that the Magars are related to the Magyars or Hungarians, a fact which is argued solely on the basis of the similarity of the name, e.g. BuDA Magar (VS2053b). The latter claim must, however, be seen as just a recent episode in a long tradition of pseudo-scholarly publications attempting to relat!
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Magyars with any and every distant group. [Uxbond 1928 used this as part of a theory linking with Magyars with the Mundas and as far afield as the Maoris.]<BR><BR>Parts in square brackets are my summary.<BR><BR>Citations:<BR>BuDa Magar, HarSa BahAdur. VS BhAdra 2053b (AD 1996). Magar jAti ra unkA sAmAjik saMskAr. Kathmandu: ZrImatI PuSpAvatI BuDA Magar. <BR><BR>Uxbond, F.A. 1938 Munda-Magyar-Maori, an INdian link bertween the antipodes: new tracks of Hungarian origins. London, Luzac and Co.<BR><BR>Van Driem considers Magar a Bodic language within the Tibeto-Burma, which further subdivision within the Bodic not yet clear. However, he uses the term Magaric to include Magar and Kham.<BR><BR>Allen Thrasher<BR><BR><BR>Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D.<BR>Senior Reference Librarian<BR>Southern Asia Section<BR>Asian Division<BR>Library of Congress<BR>Jefferson Building 150<BR>101 Independence Ave., S.E.<BR>Washington, DC 20540-4810<BR>tel. 202-707-3732<BR>fax 202-707-1724<BR>athr@loc.gov<B!
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