The ethnolinguistic revitalization movement among Nepali ethnic groups has been noticed for a few decades now in Darjeeling. The existing studies claim the movement to be an ethnic politics for scheduled tribe (ST) status. Historically multilingual Darjeeling turned into a linguistically homogenized territory as various ethnic groups of Nepali origin adopted Nepali as their lingua franca. The Nepali language hegemonized all other ethnic languages. Nepali ethnic groups hampered their ethnolinguistic identities for the umbrella Nepali/Gorkha identity leading ethnic languages to the verge of endangerment. The realization of the fact among them could become possible after they failed to recognize their adopted Nepali/Gorkha identity in the Indian nation-state during the 1980s. To satisfy the realized identity crisis, the ethnic groups found another venture for recognition in India in terms of ethnolinguistic revitalization. Ethnolinguistic revitalization as a social movement is significant for reviving or revitalizing engendered languages. It is also important for reviving ethnic identity. The ethnolinguistic revitalization movement in Darjeeling in this sense needs insight, especially from the language endangerment vantage point. Contrary to the previous studies, the result of the present study reveals that the revitalization movement is an identity negotiation process in Darjeeling. The method of integrative literature review has been employed in this study along with the unstructured interview and non-participant observation methods.