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Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (149 words) |
 | Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League is a political party working amongst the Nepali-speaking population in northern West Bengal, India. |
 | ABGL is a part of the People's Democratic Front, an alliance led by the Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists. |
 | ABGL has two out of 28 seats in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council. |
| India - Gorkhaland (968 words) |
 | The ethnic identity "Gorkha" comes from the kingdom with that name that united Nepal in the late eighteenth century and was the focal point of Nepalese in the British army. |
 | In 1928 the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (All India Gorkha League) was formed. |
 | The Gorkhaland movement distinguished Darjiling Gorkhas from nationals of Nepal legally resident in India, from Nepali-speaking Indian citizens from other parts of the country, and even from the majority in neighboring Sikkim, where Nepali is the official language. |