Ninglekhu/ku
The Limbu
The Yakthung people the clan belongs to: names and numbers, origins, Limbuwan, and the history that shaped them.
Who we are
The names Yakthung, Limbu, Subba and Limboo; the 2021 census figures; and where Limbuwan lies.
Origins
What the classical texts, the chronicles, the linguistics, the genetics and the Mundhum each can and cannot establish about Limbu origins.
Limbuwan and the ten thums
The ten thums of Das Limbuwan, their traditional rulers and capitals, and the unresolved question of ten versus seventeen.
History
Vijayapur, the Gorkha conquest, the 1774 agreement, kipat and its abolition, the Muluki Ain, Gurkha service, and the politics of the present.
Limbus in India
Bengal recognised Limbus in 1950 and Sikkim only in 2003 — twenty-seven years after its own 1976 list left them out — and the seat-reservation question that is still unresolved.
Limbus today
Census figures 1991–2021, district distribution, language shift, the diaspora, and the Limbus whose records could be confirmed.