Badagaun (बडागाउँ — literally “big village”) is a former Village Development Committee of Gulmi district, named by the Nepal Chhantyal Sangh among the Chhantyal settlements east of the Myagdi–Baglung homeland. Since the 2017 reorganisation it has been part of Musikot Municipality. “Badagaun” is a very common Nepali place name, so the one meant here is the Gulmi VDC recorded in the gazetteer (GeoNames 7799620), not one of the others by the same name.
Trace-back
The Sangh’s naming of Badagaun reflects the eastward spread of the Chhantyal from their copper-mining heartland into Gulmi, where they live as a small presence among a wider hill population. The Chhantyal link itself rests on the community’s own record; independent sources confirm the settlement but not a separate Chhantyal census here.
At the time of the 1991 census
The Badagaun VDC recorded 7,247 people in 1,305 households — a figure for the whole VDC, not the Chhantyal families alone.
What people do
As across these Gulmi hills, families live by farming and income from work abroad.
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Sources
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