Conference Year: 2016

This paper investigates the effects of the lack of state recognition of Tibetan medicine in Nepal. Although scholars have investigated the relationship between Tibetan medicine and state institutions, discussions on the different trends of modernization of Tibetan medicine induced by the lack of state recognition is missing. It is based on the ethnographic study (participant-observation) …

State Recognition and Emerging Trends of Modernization of Tibetan Medicine in Nepal Read More »

The damage caused to the perimeter wall of the Narayanhiti Palace by the 2015 earthquakes revealed the construction site of the republic memorial (Ganatantra Smarak), to anyone walking past the North East corner of the palace compound. The design competition was launched in 2009 with initial fanfare by the (then Maoist-led) government (and the entries …

Gantantra Smarak (Republic Memorial): The Politics of Memory Read More »

Integration of immigrants has been a pertinent issue both theoretically and at the policy level in major migrant receiving states. In the case of the United Kingdom (UK), this has been reflected in the rise of extreme right-wing parties and increasing public resistance, who see immigration as a threat to national solidarity as the immigrants …

The Gurkha Wives of United Kingdom: Challenges to Social Integration Read More »

The British army remains one of the most attractive career paths for young men in Nepal. Recruitment for first the East India Trade Company in the 1800s, later the British Imperial Army and today, the British and Indian armies has long provided an economic incentive that has shaped the way that young men in Nepal …

The Socio Economic Impact of British Army Recruitment in Nepal Read More »

This paper examines the celebration of Dashain, the most celebrated Hindu festival in Nepal, by the Buddhist Tamang people of Kavre district.  Many ethnic activists and scholars argue that Dashain and its patronizing by the state is a continual process of creating Hindu cultural hegemony in Nepal. Since the early 1990s, indigenous and other non-Hindu …

Dashain Celebration among the Tamang Community and Producing Doxa: An Indigenous Perspective Read More »

This paper analyzes shifts in the strategy of caste representation during the democratization movements of 1950s, 1990s, and 2000s in Nepal by focusing on the Khaḍgī caste who have been engaged in slaughtering, processing and trading of livestock as a caste-based role in Newar society. I will investigate how Khaḍgī formed their networks in the …

Shifts in the Strategy of Caste-Representation: Links between Commercial Negotiations in the Meat Markets and Identity Politics Read More »

This manuscript describes results of a DFID and Wellcome Trust funded disaster mental health intervention in Bhaktapur district Nepal. The culturally-adapted intervention was tested in two earthquake affected communities (N = 240 persons), across three time points, using a matched cluster comparison design. Consistent with hypotheses, the intervention increased disaster preparedness, increased attributions to natural …

Disaster Mental Health Intervention Research with Earthquake-affected Communities in Nepal: Enhancing well-being and Increasing Engagement in Disaster Preparedness Read More »

Though it is banal to say the series of earthquakes that hit Nepal this last spring will radically change the country, what this change will consist of still remains undetermined. As government-led reconstruction efforts meander forward with little noticeable effect, and as many earthquake victims learn to make do in broken houses, tents or corrugated …

Transparency and Disaster: Tales from the Reconstruction of Post-Earthquake Nepal Read More »

The present paper is an ethnographic account of the Nepalese migrant workers living and working in the coal mines in Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya. Most of the workers working in the selected coal mining area of the Jaintia Hills hail from Bhojpur district of Eastern Nepal. The paper works on return migration and it argues that, …

Return of the Nepalese Coal Mine Migrant Workers Read More »

There is a considerable difference between thinking about sex differences with the dichotomous variable and integrating more complex gender analysis in migration research.This paper makes a rigorous analysis of migration from gender perspective that highlights the livelihood contribution of women labour migrants of Nepal and assesses the exploitation and exclusion they have faced during the …

Not the Women but their Remittance Contribution is Acknowledged: Women Labour Migration and their Exclusion in Nepal Read More »