Nepal's Two Polities: A View from Dolakha

This paper provides a quick overview of Nepal that spans its origins, different historical accounts, demographics, and current socio-political context. Some of the major political activities that have been followed by important civil uprisings and instability are also covered. Other works contained herein that have been consulted include online sources available across the internet and other media portals. While some of the descriptions and explanations included are from the author’s own personal experience and analysis as a citizen, most of the works are assembled from various sources comprising online portals and blogs, news magazines, official archives, and the digital library. Most of the facts and figures as well as historical accounts have been assembled from various governmental and non-governmental online sources. The paper aims to provide its reader a quick guide about Nepal in its various aspects. The future health of Nepal rests greatly in the hope of creating a new constitution, a process started in 2008. Naturally beautiful, Nepal today is worse off than ever before. In spite of (or perhaps because of) this, Nepalese have huge hope and faith in the upcoming Constitution, and are impatiently looking forward to experiencing a new start in the country because of it.

Himalayan 'People's War': Nepal's Maoist Rebellion. …, 2004

The Maoist movement has been gaining momentum in Nepal since 1996, and in early 2002 nobody could deny its saliency or its far-reaching impact upon peoples' lives there. 1 Indeed, the Maoist movement had been setting the political agenda to a very large extent for some years, and it remained uncertain how a satisfactory settlement could be reached when the political stakeholders' positions and aims clashed so severely. Inside and outside Nepal, many different views, perspectives and positions have been taken on the Maoists' goals and their impact upon Nepal's future development and well-being. Obviously, visions of where Nepali society is heading and how to get there differ significantly, according to political allegiance.

Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics, ed. Paul Brass, 2010

2016

This lecture traces some of the ways in which Nepal has been imagined, starting over 1500 years ago when the name referred to the Kathmandu Valley ruled by the Licchavi dynasty. That spatialised hierarchical conception (‘Nepal mandala’) is contrasted with later ideas of Nepal as interface, empire, nation-state, and multicultural federal republic. At each stage, Nepal has been imagined as made up of different kinds of people. In the modern period formal and official categorisations have become increasingly egalitarian and, recently, even explicitly antihierarchical. Since 1990, ethnic identities have been massively transformed and politicised. Entirely new ‘macro categories’ have come into existence. However, the old order has not simply disappeared, but remains ‘back stage’, reworked; it can be discerned in informal but still powerful hierarchies of language and national belonging.

Himalayan Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2008

This article, under the theoretical parasol of conflict perspective, converses on veracities of current Nepal, rising conflicts, paradigm shifts and deepening crisis amidst the proposed constituent assembly elections. It is astringent veracity that after the successful movement of 2006 and the country being on the threshold of constituent assembly elections, in the present, the major segments of precautious civil society and commoners are questioning the validity of politics, operation pattern of political parties, and the distribution of rights and scarce resources among the elites rather than among masses. I argue that the more, practices of dominant ruling elite segments and their fraternal organizations are creating alienative disposition from the grievances of commoners , the more is the deepening crisis and more civil society, common public becoming aware of their true collective interest by communicating their grievances to each other and questioning the validity of activitie...

Himalaya, The Journal of the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 2015

Since the mid-eighteenth century when armies serving the English East India Company (EIC) clashed with the Gorkhali power, British officers depicted Nepal as an example of classical Hindu despotism. Subsequent scholars of the region have not quite challenged these representations, mostly taking such colonial descriptors as 'facts. '

by Mandala book point, Kathmandu, Nepal. The book has made the departure from the historical change that had took place in 1950, abolishing the Rana Oligarchy and establishing democracy in Nepal. The premature democracy had hijacked for three decades by the partyless Panchayat system which was overthrown by peoples' movement in the 1990 for restoring the multiparty democracy and constitutional monarchy. However, the key focus of the book lies with the major issues that has raised by the peoples' movement in 1990.