Ghyakhani — spelled Ghayakhani in the community’s own list and Ghaiyakhani in scholarship — is a Chhantyal mining hamlet of Baglung district. A Tribhuvan University study of the Chhantyal community places it within Adhikarichaur, on the Nisikhola side of Baglung — an independent record of both the village and its Chhantyal families. We have not found a separate gazetteer coordinate for the hamlet itself, so it isn’t yet pinned on the map.
Trace-back
The “-khani” ending names it a mine village — part of the copper country that gave the Chhantyal their old reputation as the miners of the Dhaulagiri hills.
What people do
Specific figures for the hamlet are not recorded here. Today, as across Baglung, life rests on farming, livestock and income from abroad — the old mining craft now a memory.
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Sources
- Tribhuvan University thesis — 'Socio-economic and Cultural Condition of Chhantyal Community: A Case Study of Adhikarichaur VDC of Baglung District' (docslib.org/doc/2731641)
- thechhantyal.blogspot.com/2008/12/introduction-to-chhantyal.html — names it 'Ghayakhani' among the Chhantyal settlements of Baglung.
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