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Nationalism
and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom
The Polities
of Culture in Contempory Nepal
| Edited by: |
David
N. Gellner, Joanna Ptait-Czarnecka andJohn Whelpton |
ISBN: 90-5702-147-1
Size: 23X15
Edition: PB
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Rs. 2,240.00
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About the book
Nepal is the only officially Hindu Kingdom in the world and has remained
so through successive changes of political regime. Since the nineteenth
century it has experienced the autocracy of the Ranas, guided partyless
democracy led by the king, and, following the people's revolution of 1990,
a multiparty constitutional monarchy. For nine months in 1994 and 1995 it
even had an elected Communist government, the first time a national government
has been formed by Communists in South Asia.
This volume takes a long-term view of the various processes of ethnic and
national development which have occurred both before and after 1990 and
examines the ways that different political regimes have framed and attempted
to control them. It brings together twelve carefully chosen ethnographic
and historical chapters covering the major ethnic groups and regions of
Nepal. Two leading Nepali intellectuals, Prayag Raj Sharma and Harka Gurung,
provide concluding commentaries.
Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom is an ideal case study for
all students of modernization, effinicity, nationalism, and the interconnections
of culture and politics. With its systematic coverage of different groups,
it demonstrates how similar trends of ethnic formation are affecting all
parts of Nepal. Yet, within the boundaries of a single, culturally diverse
state, very different forms of ethnicity have emerged. |
