local communities
The villager in Nepal has ideas about what medicine should be, respect for specialists who can diagnose and cure, and a faith in the basic validity of the system. This paper explores the methods of healing within a village in central Nepal. As can be seen, there are various techniques of curing - herbal, ritual, western - all of which are integrated into a system designed to deal with the...
The paper discusses the peoples that live in the upper Ankhu Khola valley, which is located about 45 km west of Kathmandu. Mainly Tamang (over 70%), smaller groups of Gurungs and Newars live in this area.
The village of Padipur is in the central Terai, a mile away from its district headquarters and three miles from the Indian border. There are 155 households scattered on either side of the cart track going south from the main road. In these 155 households, there are 11 castes. The article analyses their occupations and landholding. The paper provides a study on one village, looking at political...
The rationale for this paper is that it is necessary for rural development planners and workers to have knowledge of the structure of rural Nepal and the functions and processes of its various parts. There is a lot of knowledge that exists, but it deserves to be systematised and disseminated for application in national development planning.
It is suggested that in carrying out rural...
In order to determine the problems of the small farmers (owning less than 1.5 hectares in the Terai and 0.5 hectares in the Hills), HMG Nepal sponsored in cooperation with FAO/UNDP a workshop on "Development Support for Small Farmers" in January 1974. There were two workshops, both focusing on the problems of small farmers in a specified area.
This multi-disciplinary and multi-level...
In the author's tour of east Nepal hills, starting from Solu and proceeding eastwards to Dharan by Okaldhunga, Bhojpur, Chainpur and Hile, the author noted the regular appearance of certain manufactured goods. Batteries, biscuits, cigarettes, cloth etc. could be seen. Copy books, rubber or canvas shoes, kerosene brass lamps, candles, glass tumblers, aluminium vessels, traditional brassware,...
A successful system of animal husbandry is the critical element in maintaining a successful trading system in an area with poor transportation, such as the Himalayas. Although the author has argued elsewhere that access to pack animals and plentiful pasture land gave the Thakalis an advantage over neighbouring groups in establishing themselves as the major trading group in central Nepal, his...
Nepal is believed to have been populated mainly by immigration over many centuries, of Mongloid groups from the Tibetan region and of Indo-Aryan groups from northern India. The Muslim invasion of India accelerated migration from the south, beginning in the thirteenth century, when a large number of Rajputs (ruling groups of north India) and other Hindus left the Gangetic plain to find refuge...
The Terai, considered the granary of Nepal, is facing serious threat from siltation originating from the Churia hills mainly due to heavy deforestation together with forest and watershed degradation. Discussions with local community people revealed that no such problem existed 5-6 decades ago when the Churia forest was intact. All the forestry sector policies had recognized the Churia hills as...
Between 2003 and 2006, Tra Vinh Provincial Women's Union and the Farmers' Association implemented a project supported by Oxfam Great Britain. The aim of the project was to use participatory monitoring and evaluation of poverty policies in order to discover the expectations of poor men and women, and to help them improve their livelihoods. These findings were communicated to People's...
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