The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya – Kathmandu, Nepal
The national average for case finding of Tuberculosis in Nepal has remained between 70-76% for more than a decade now. Nepal Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) has an objective to reach the case finding rate of 82% by 2015 nationally. Accordingly, a new technology in detecting tuberculosis has been introduced in Nepal from 2011 under the TB …
The ‘Computer Janch’ for TB: Rolling Out of Gene Xpert in Nepal Read More »
This paper blends a theoretical framework for understanding social and spatial change in areas affected by hydropower development in Nepal with ethnographic accounts of diverse ‘lived experiences’ of hydropower development in the watersheds of the Trishuli and Tamakoshi rivers. Discussing hydropower development in terms of the turbulences and negotiations that mark its fluid boundaries this …
Although community forestry (CF) in Nepal has been considered a successful program in terms of improving forest conditions, supporting forest-based livelihoods and enhancing local level community engagement, its exclusionary outcomes have been well documented. However, more focus has been given to the socio-cultural, economic and institutional factors at the community level as the causes of …
Discussions about women in Nepal, especially in tracing contributions to the nation and democracy, almost always emphasize women’s participation in democracy movements, opposition politics and various leadership positions. Thus for example, there are numerous histories that trace the role of various women from Yog Maya Neupane onwards. These histories are very important contributions because they …
“Sikkimization” and Gendered Anxieties of Nepali Sovereignty Read More »
The end of Rana rule in 1951 was an important rupture in the history of social science research in Nepal. The scholar of literature and history Kamal P. Malla (1970) has characterized the 1950s in the following manner: The post-1950 decade in Nepal is characterized, in the first place, by a sense of release and …
Nepal Sanskritik Parisad and the Circulation of Research in Immediate Post-Rana Nepal Read More »
Nepal’s first university, Tribhuvan University, was established in 1959, which is pretty well known fact to those who are interested in Nepal’s education system. What however is not known to the most is the earlier effort(s) to establish a university in Nepal. Surprised many would perhaps be if one were to say that the first …
In this paper I describe and analyze several basic elements of rituals among Rangs in Byans, Far Western Nepal and adjacent regions, focusing on three different named gestures or bodily movements carried out very frequently in their “rituals”. Rang traditionally lives in several Himalayan valleys in Darchula District in Nepal and Uttarakhand in India, and …
On Three Basic ‘Ritual’ Gestures in Byans, Far Western Nepal Read More »
This paper focuses on a particular time (the post-monarchy Nepali present) and site (the Narayanhiti Palace Museum) that I believe offers a compelling space for understanding the negotiation of Nepal’s recent past, thereby revealing as much about the Nepal of which it forms a part as the Nepal it institutionalizes – the on-going transition from …
Staging Memories at the Narayanhiti Palace Museum Read More »
The Nepalese Indrajatra, the autumnal festival of the Hindu god Indra, is the mul Jatra (root festival) of the city of Kathmandu. The origins of this festival lie in the Sanskrit texts of classical India: the epic Mahabharata (most likely its first appearance), the dramaturgical Natyashastra, the architectural Samarangana Sutradhara, and the royal-astrological Brihat Samhita. …
The Nepalese Indra Festival as Index of Contemporary Political Life Read More »
Nepal, traditionally an agrarian society, used to offer limited employment opportunities. However, since this last decade it has witnessed drastic changes in its labour market. With an approximate 1600 youths leaving for foreign employment every day and remittances accounting for a large 25 percent of its GDP, Nepal is slowly and duly coming to be …
Money Speaks: The Effects of Remittances on Caste-Based Discrimination Read More »