Conference Year: 2021

The covid-19’s pandemic compelled the Government of Nepal to impose a lockdown to prevent its upsurge. It caused the social institutions, such as educational institutions to persist a closure. As the educational institutions remained closed for long-time, many schools/university postponed the traditional classroom education system. Consequently, it disturbed around nine million (8,796,624) school/university-students’ regular classroom …

COVID-19 Pandemic and Challenges of Students for Alternative Learning at University Education in Nepal Read More »

Through the narratives of 48 women from Dailekh, Jumala and Accham of Nepal, we explore the menstrual practices of women under three distinct socio-political order–religion and mysticism; Maoist / conflict period and liberal democracy. These three socio-political orders have played crucial role in shaping the menstrual practices in Nepal especially in above mentioned three districts.  …

From Fear to Shame: Socio-Political Influences on Menstruation Practice in Dailekh, Jumla and Achham Read More »

The Nepali community in Hong Kong is recognized as one of the major ethnic groups within the broader ‘South Asian’ identity. The data show that the total population of Nepali is around forty thousand, most of them are the descents of the Gurkha soldiers. Officially recognized as ‘ethnic minorities’, Nepalis in Hong Kong, as shown …

Language, Identity, and Nepali Youth in Hong Kong Read More »

Are the people not resilient to the vulnerabilities when exposed to a certain hazard because of their marginalisation or remoteness or are they not resilient because of the transforming structures and processes that keep them vulnerable? What are the vulnerabilities revolving around the households in the Central Himalayan region and how much of it is …

Mountains of Risk: The Many Faces of Vulnerability in the Central Himalayas Read More »

This paper critically examines the significance of transnational AIDS networks and resources on the consolidation of one of the earliest identity categories, meti, used within an emerging Nepali LGBT movement in the early 2000s. It firstly argues that political identity formation in resource-poor contexts with limited domestic support for queer organising has been a cumulative …

Transnational AIDS Networks, Regional Solidarities and the Configuration of Metis in Nepal Read More »

The response of the Nepali state, and that of the donors and development partners, to the Covid-19 pandemic has been abysmal. Even after the pandemic led to lockdowns where all aspects of socio‑economic life were affected, the government was all for collecting taxes by opening up the economy at the urging of the business community …

Apathetic and Impassive: The Nepali State in Crises Read More »

Scholars take the view that globalisation harbours a utilitarian conception of market rationality and competitive individualism and that globalisation makes the national and political boundaries messy by putting the market above all other forms of social and international engagement.  Even amidst diverging viewpoints on the role of globalisation, there is an established line of inquiry …

National Symbols and the Political Agency of Tourism Read More »

Caste-based discrimination occurs primarily in interactions between Dalits and non-Dalits. As is often noted, however, it is also common for Dalits to exhibit prejudiced behaviour towards members of other Dalit castes. This phenomenon, which classic anthropological literature calls ‘replication’, is puzzling. Why would people who are regularly subjected to a specific kind of discrimination submit …

Replication Reconsidered: Anti-Casteist Norms and Prejudiced Behaviour Read More »

Nepal continues to be an agrarian economy with agriculture providing primary employment to 64 per cent of the workforce and contributing 32% in the value-added according to the most recent figures available (CBS, 2015). The pressure on agricultural land is also more than its neighboring countries China and India, which are still regarded as surplus …

The Conundrum of Labor Shortage in a Labor Surplus Economy: An Investigation of Nepal Read More »

The paper attempts to address two inter-related issues in the context of the Rajbanshi community living in the Indo-Nepal-Bangladesh borderland. It is based on the argument that, “cross-border nationalism” that cuts across the political borders has been a post-colonial phenomenon in the Indian sub-continent. However, its root can be traced back to the political history …

“Cross-Border Nationalism” and Emerging Transnational Identity: The Rajbanshis of Indo-Nepal-Bangladesh Borderland Read More »