Bongadovan (also written Bungadovan) is a large former village development committee in Baglung district, named by the Nepal Chhantyal Sangh among the district’s Chhantyal settlements — where Chhantyal families live within a wider hill community of Magar, Chhetri, Brahmin and others.
Trace-back
Bongadovan belongs to the Baglung homeland that, with Myagdi, has always held most of the Chhantyal people, sharing the community’s roots in copper mining and hill farming across the Dhaulagiri country.
At the time of the 1991 census
Bongadovan recorded 4,537 people in 904 houses — a sizeable settlement, its Chhantyal families part of a larger population.
What people do
Life rests on farming the terraced slopes, livestock, and income from family working abroad.
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