The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya – Kathmandu, Nepal
Endogamy is preferred and still prevalent among the Bahun and Newar in Nepal as in other communities. This practice is common for a variety of reasons from societal norms to commonalities in ritual beliefs and practices. However, intermarriage is becoming increasingly common that challenge and question traditional marriage practices. From a traditionalist standpoint, Bahun affinal …
For the countries like Nepal, which is a land-locked least developed country (LLDC) and sandwiched between the two regional powers like China and India, it becomes challenging to have an independent foreign policy based on its national interests. However, Nepal considering its geo-strategic location, has followed a foreign policy based on more survival kind of …
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Considering the Indra festival of Kathmandu, Nepal, this paper will ask how the unique narratives and icons of a contained and confined Indra help us better to understand the location of the festival and its central deity within the polytropic religion of the Kathmandu Valley. These icons of Indra, raised in Jyapu (Farmer) neighborhoods throughout …
Containing, Confining, and Categorizing Indra: A Vedic Deity in Tantric Nepal Read More »
Inter-generational occupational mobility is the relationship in occupations adopted by the successive generations within the members of the same family like father-son, father-daughter, mother-son, mother-daughter. This study tries to examine the association in between the occupation of father and the son for transformation of farming occupations into non-farming using Nepalese data from rural context. A …