Conference Year: 2023

Nepal is rapidly transitioning into digital governance, introducing various mandatory documents such as smart-driving license, e-passport, voter ID, embossed number plate, and Nagarik App to its digital projects. This study proposes to focus on what forces are driving the idea of digital governance, who decides and priorities digital projects, in what capacity digital projects are …

Digitization of Identities in Nepal: Interests & Implications Read More »

Since the mid-nineteenth century, Darjeeling emerged as an observatory point, with the process of developmental construction for the British. The building of roads, railways, mines and tea plantations made it an economic hub that encouraged cheap labour from the adjoining countries of Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal. A huge influx of Nepalese population was encouraged through …

The Construction of Sherpa Identity in Darjeeling: A Sociological Study Read More »

This paper will address an under-analysed topic in Nepal’s political sociology: the prospects for political religion, in particular, political Hinduism in Nepal. This paper departs from the current literature on the topic, in that it is not a normative critique of Hindutva from a political theory or constitutional perspective, nor is it an ethnography of …

Hindutva in Nepal: A Political Sociology Analysis of its Prospects Read More »

Maithili, a New Indo-Aryan language and a descendant of the Ursprache Māgadhī Prākrit, is the 40th most spoken language in the world; the 2nd most widely spoken national language in Nepal and presently recommended by the Language Commission of Nepal to be declared as the language of day to day official administration in the Madhesh Pradesh of the Federal Democratic Republic …

Toward a Historiography of Lexicogenesis in Maithili – With Special Reference to the Hitherto Unstudied and Unpublished Hand–Written British Library, London MS. of Henry Thomas Colebrooke’s Comparative Vocabulary (1807 CE) Read More »

A few small-scale researches conducted in Nepal have shown that Dalits often have higher rates of mental health disorders than the so-called ‘upper castes’. Dalits’ own caste identity has become a major contributor to mental health problems. Caste-based discrimination, humiliation, and indignity are important factors, among others, that have been associated with the high risk …

Caste in Mental Health Service and Policy in Nepal Read More »

Purpose: This paper wants to explore the attitude of high school Nepalese students toward scientists using a famous method named as Draw-A-Scientist-Test (DAST). Design/methodology/approach: This paper analyses the drawings of scientists made by the students to explore their attitude regarding scientists. Drawings are analyzed based on the activities, locations, appearances, tools, and objects depicted in …

From an Elderly Middle-Aged Man to ‘A Scientist May Be Anyone’: DAST in Nepalese Context Read More »

This paper reports in emergent findings from PhD research on life skill education in Nepal. In South Asia, there is growing concern for the ‘skill gap’ among young people (Aring, 2012). Gautam (2016) clearly describes the mismatch between Kathmandu undergraduate students’ school-based learning and their actual preparedness for entering the work force. My research engages …

Language of Instruction Communication: A ‘Soft Skills’ Approach to Understanding English Language Abilities among College Students in Kathmandu Read More »

The increasing interest in wartime colonial encounters in academia can be seen as an indicator of a growing need for constructing trans-national and cross-cultural perspectives on the past, which is crucial for the stability of the contemporary world. Among the multifarious contemporary theoretical perspectives on the First and the Second World Wars, one can detect …

Two Sides of the Same Coin? Gurkhas and Indians in Polish World War Two Memoirs Read More »

Gorkha Earthquake-2015 had massive impact on economic and social life of Nepali people throughout the country. Beside physical destruction, it had immense psychological and cultural loses. Many people had to migrate from their land to somewhere new places for survival. Some had to leave their address permanently and many returned back to their land after …

Culture Loss and Changes after Earthquake-Related Residence Shift Read More »

Disasters are known to unveil and exacerbate various forms of injustices facing historically disadvantaged communities. The present paper uses the lens of Covid-19 as a catalyst for injustice, to explore and document the characteristics of injustices facing Nepali labour migrants in the wake of the Covid-19 disaster. Nepali migrants are historically exposed to several forms …

Disaster as a Catalyst for Injustice: Experiences of Nepali Foreign Labour Migrants during Covid-19 Read More »