Indian Gorkhas or Bharatiya Gorkhas (Nepali: भारतीय गोर्खा) are Nepali-speaking people of India. The term "Indian Gorkha" tries to make a distinction between citizen of Nepal and the Indian citizens of Gorkha (Nepali) ethnic group. In the introduction to the book Gorkhas Imagined (2009), Prem Poddar makes an important point about the Gorkhas in Nepal versus the Gorkhas in India: "the word 'Gorkha' (or the neologism 'Gorkhaness') as a self-descriptive term ... has gained currency as a marker of difference for Nepalis living in India as opposed to their brethren and sistren in Nepal.[1]