Bami

Bami 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. Its existence as a 1991 VDC is on record, but we have not been able to re-locate it in a present-day gazetteer or confirm which of Gulmi’s current municipalities absorbed it — so its place on the map is left unconfirmed.

A note on the name: the community list pairs Bami with “Malarani,” but the only Malarani the gazetteers record is a rural municipality in Arghakhanchi, a different district — so that pairing looks like a local name rather than an official one, and we don’t state it as fact here.

Trace-back

The Sangh’s naming of Bami reflects the eastward spread of the Chhantyal from their copper-mining heartland into Gulmi, where they form a small presence among a wider hill population. The Chhantyal link rests on the community’s own record.

At the time of the 1991 census

The Bami VDC recorded 5,993 people in 1,053 households — a figure for the whole VDC, not the Chhantyal families alone.

What people do

As across these hills, families live by farming and income from work abroad.

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