Conference Year: 2024

Sajag-Nepal: Preparedness and Planning for the mountain hazard and risk chain is an interdisciplinary and collaborative Global North-South partnered research project funded by the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund (2021-2024). The project brings together social and physical scientists, humanities scholars, policymakers, and practitioners, affiliated with diverse institutional partners in Nepal, the UK, New Zealand, and …

Sajag-Nepal: Preparedness and Planning for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain Read More »

Since the era of decolonization and in the present day, the transnational circulation of Nepali labour to Malaya/sia has been an important albeit understudied linkage in the context of migration studies in Nepal. The proposed panel endeavours to explore migrant labour connections and dynamics between Nepal and Malaysia, examining both historical patterns and contemporary dynamics. …

Precarity and Possibility: Transnational Migrant Labour, Life-Making & Legalities in Malaya/Sia Read More »

Nepali society develops the early traces of modern consciousness in the 1930s. As we approach Nepal from literary writings, reading the contexts and texts to understand the socio-political worldview, we see walking has shaped the perceptions of people before the introduction of modern highways. People walked to see the world, understand themselves, and pay homage …

Of Journeys and Worldviews: Formation of Early Modern Consciousness in Nepal Read More »

This panel will explore three histories of public (school) education in the Nepali cultural world during the mid-20th century decades. Given the dominance of the state-centric approach in the existing writings on the subject, we propose a different approach to this history. While the particular characteristics of the various political regimes and their policies for …

Histories of Education in the Nepali Cultural World Read More »

There is no universally accepted definition of a boksi; the term means different things to different people in different places. But, the common understanding is that it is the art of doing evil by spiritual power and believed that dhami/jhakri only can control the boksi, as they have similar power. The existence of a boksi is common …

The Social Construction of Boksi (Witch) in Tamang Community In Kavrepalachowk District Read More »

In the realm of extensive research on various Indian tribes, the specificities surrounding tribal women have remained a relatively underexplored facet within scholarly discourse. This research paper addresses this gap by delving into the lives of Bhotia women, a Scheduled Tribe residing in the Johar valley of the Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand. Former trans-Himalayan traders, the …

Changing Life Pattern of Tribal Women: Kumaoni Bhotia of Uttarakhand Read More »

The spontaneous re-emergence of Gurukul education in Nepal (Timilsina 2074 BS) has a connection to a global business of spirituality, religion, and health. Nearly one hundred Gurukuls in different districts have been running ‘Yoga and Yagya’, according to a non-governmental organisation’ Nepal Maharishi Foundation for Vedic Culture (vedicnepal.org 2022). The 88 Gurukuls have implemented the …

Nepali Gurukuls Under Zoom Monitoring from Abroad: Lived Experiences Read More »

Across the hill regions of Nepal and neighbouring regions of India, the Sorati story is a central part of the Pangdure (also known as Maruni) traditional dance repertoire. In central Nepal, the first half of the twentieth century appears to have been the heyday of Pangdure performances; out of the Jyamrung, Dhading Pangdure troupe of …

Notating Sorati: Subi Shah’s Nepali Dance Notation, Ideas of Nationalism, and the Classical Read More »

In the early twentieth century, the British were convinced that the South Asians of the British Indian army needed their control and leadership to fight effectively. According to this colonialist construction, they ‘were supposed to be gallant warriors but ineffective leaders – men who could fight but not to think (Das 2018, 186) because they …

Unbalanced Power: The Role of the British in the Polish-South Asian World War Two Relations Read More »

This paper investigates aspects of Buddhist spiritual songs (Tibetan mgur, Sanskrit dohā) from eighteenth-century Dolpa, Nepal, by examining the song compositions of Tadru Orgyan Tenzin (1657-1737), one of the most prolific historical poet-yogins of Dolpa. Specifically, this paper will address research questions regarding which types of spiritual folk songs were found from Dolpa during that …

Spiritual Songs (mgur) in 17-18 th Century Dolpa, Nepal: Sub-Genres of Song Found in the Writings of Tadru Orgyan Tenzin (1657–1737) Read More »