Tibetan Population In India Shrinks as Fewer Refugees Arrive, Young People Leave
Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) shows the scale of the change. The Dalai Lama founded the residential school network in 1960 to look after refugee children, and it grew as new groups arrived in India.
Dharamshala: India's Tibetan community is getting smaller. Officials say 70,000 to 80,000 Tibetans live in the country as of 2026, down from a little over 1 lakh around 2010. Refugee arrivals from Tibet have declined.
Families are having fewer kids. ... [4739 chars]
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- Thursday, 15 October 2026, 4:36 pm IST
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