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The area's ethnic Nepalese, known as Gorkhas, have been agitating since the 1980s for a separate Gorkhaland state.
FOXNews.com 2011
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The area's ethnic Nepalese, known as Gorkhas, have been agitating since the 1980s for a separate Gorkhaland state.
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India's West Bengal state signed an agreement offering greater autonomy to ethnic Gorkhas in hopes of ending their often violent agitation for a homeland in the Himalayan foothills.
What's News— 2011
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Piyal Adhikari/European Pressphoto Agency By signing the accord to grant more autonomy to the Gorkhas, West Bengal's newly elected chief minister Mamata Bannerjee fulfills one of her most notable election promises.
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As with all nations, Tibet experienced periods in which our neighbours - Mongol, Manchu, Chinese, British and the Gorkhas of Nepal - sought to establish influence over us.
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As with all nations, Tibet experienced periods in which our neighbours - Mongol, Manchu, Chinese, British and the Gorkhas of
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At times Tibet extended its influence over neighbouring countries and peoples and, in other periods, came itself under the influence of powerful foreign rulers - the Mongol Khans, the Gorkhas of Nepal, the Manchu Emperors and the British in India.
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At times Tibet extended its influence over neighbouring countries and peoples and, in other periods, came itself under the influence of powerful foreign rulers - the Mongol Khans, the Gorkhas of Nepal, the Manchu Emperors and the British in India.
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At times Tibet extended its influence over neighbouring countries and peoples and, in other periods, came itself under the influence of powerful foreign rulers - the Mongol Khans, the Gorkhas of Nepal, the Manchu Emperors and the British in India.
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At times Tibet extended its influence over neighbouring countries and peoples and, in other periods, came itself under the influence of powerful foreign rulers - the Mongol Khans, the Gorkhas of Nepal, the Manchu Emperors and the British in India.
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