"Hindu kingship, ethnic revival and Maoist rebellion in Nepal"
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- 9780198072256
- 305.5095496 LEC
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305.5 WHI Equality | 305.5091724 GLO Globalizing cities: inequality and segregation in developing countries | 305.50951 GOO Class in contemporary China | 305.5095496 LEC "Hindu kingship, ethnic revival and Maoist rebellion in Nepal" | 305.50973 STI Price of inequality | 305.512095492 SOC Social formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005: a longitudinal study of society in a third world megacity | 305.5122 CAS Caste in question |
This volume discusses issues of tribal identity and the Maoist rebellion in the face of Hindu kingship and caste organization. The 1990s witnessed the rise of two successive but interrelated movements that transformed society-ethnic revivalism and the Maoist rebellion. The author, who lived for some months in central Nepal before the emergence of these movements, studied a multi-caste and a multi-ethnic village community. The site of the author's fieldwork is a place where Hindus have been in very close touch with the tribal population. As far back as the fifteenth century, Hindu rulers had forged ties with the tribal chiefs. Of the indigenous people-who form a third of the country's population-the Magars are the largest group and developed the closest relationship with Hindu rulers. The essays explore the strategies of the Magars in building relations with high-caste Hindus and how these strategies were determined unilaterally by the Hindu rulers. Over a period of time, this created ground for tribals to join hands with Maoists to construct a model of society in opposition to caste organization and Hindu monarchy.
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