Khawang — gazetted as Khabang (the b/w sounds interchange in the local romanisation) — is a former Village Development Committee of Pyuthan district, named by the Nepal Chhantyal Sangh among its Chhantyal areas. Since 2017 it has been part of Naubahini Rural Municipality. It should not be confused with Khawang Bazaar in neighbouring Eastern Rukum.
Trace-back
Pyuthan does not appear in earlier sources on the community, so this is among the newest additions to the Chhantyal map, reflecting how far the people have dispersed from their Myagdi–Baglung heartland. Independent sources locate the settlement; how and when Chhantyal families came here is not separately recorded.
At the time of the 2001 census
The Khabang VDC recorded 4,217 people in 769 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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