Lammela

Lammela is named among the villages with sizeable Chhantyal settlements in Baglung district, one of the two districts at the heart of the Chhantyal homeland.

Trace-back

Baglung, with Myagdi, is where most Chhantyal have always lived. Lammela shares the community’s history of copper mining and farming on the Dhaulagiri foothills.

The Mukhiya tradition

Lamela is one of six villages of western Baglung — with Taman, Khunga, Khungkhani, Narjakhani and Lukurban — that were historically governed by a single Mukhiya, a traditional village chief. The custom still endures next door in Taman, where the Mukhiya is no longer a tax-collector but a keeper of customs: organising festivals, coordinating the seasonal livestock migration (chan) and clean-up work, and settling disputes by village assembly. A new Mukhiya, Govinda Bahadur Budha, was elected for a three-year term in January 2026 — a sign of how alive the institution remains.

What people do

Specific figures for the village are not yet recorded here. As across Baglung, families live by farming, animal husbandry and income from abroad.

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