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Diplomacy that governs the relationship between Nepal and India has always been like a myth, akin to the myth of Sisyphus. No sooner do diplomats climb down the mountain of controversy with treaties and agreements than they have to turn around again to begin the climb again as they face the mountain of controversy anew. This pattern has become a life-cycle of Nepal-India relations which are...
Hutt, M (ed), 1994, Nepal in the Nineties: Versions of the past, visions of the future. Oxford University Press, Delhi, India.
This book contains eight essays that directly or indirectly, with one exception, deal with the politics (broadly defined) of Nepal during the late Panchyat era, the Jana Andolan of 1990, and the first two years of multiparty democracy. Richard Burghart's opening...
The study of political perspective on social development in Nepal assumes the fundamental laws of the land that govern and determine the behaviour of social forces, processes,and institutions - and these shape the strategies that define the dynamics of society in a desirable direction. Unlike other development visions postulating the growth of parts, such as economy or politics, social...
THe term 'Manjan' refers to a person or group of persons, clan and dynasty hereditarily enjoying special, respected status and powers invested to that status in a given community or social system. In the present context, the term is a corrupt and localised version of Sanskrit 'manyajanah' (the person/s to be respected). For the purpose of this paper, the term refers to a traditionally...
The problems resulting from rapid urban growth, haphazard development, and general lack of planning have been apparent in the towns of the Kathmandu Valley for more than three decades. During that period, Kathmandu routinely experienced serious lack of access, deficiency of infrastructure, traffic congestion, and inadequacy of housing. These problems were compounded by the continuing damage to...
Review of: Pokherel, J. C.; 1996, Environmental Resource Negotiation Btween Unequal Powers. Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, India.
This book attempts to build a conceptual framework on negotiation by particularly applying Roger Fisher's works on Negotiating Power. Studies on negotiation from a weak nation's perspective and strategies pursued by weak nations in enhancing power are of...
Innumerable studies about Nepal have pointed out the severe degradation of forests in the country. SOme of the studies have gone one step further and have included aspects of utilisation and have looked at the impact of degradation upon the local population. At the same time, there is a vast body of studies on (environmental) policies, which also, or primarily, include issues of implementation...
While the cultural and religious importance of mutual help institutions has been emphasised by scholars of Nepalese culture, the socioeconomic aspects of such institutions and systems have only in a few instances received broad recognition. Any deficiency of information on the subject has become more crucial nowadays, since the economic development of Nepal has come to terms with an ever...
Nepal has overwhelmingly an agrarian economy. As of 1991, 81% of the total economically active population in the country was engaged in the agricultural sector. In the fiscal year 1974/75the agriculture sector in Nepal contributed 72% to the total national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Eighteen years later in 1992/93, its percentage share constituted 45.6%. Thus, although there has been over...
It is but natural for reseachers on Nepal to habitually identify two recurrent phenomena - monarchy and poverty coexisting and constraining democratic development in the country. The premises that an assertive monarchy and an incipient democracy are institutionally incompatible in a feudalistic socioeconomic environment of a 'soft state' like Nepal lead to a foregone conclusion about the...
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