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Book Name: La. Lit: A Literary Magazine Volume 4
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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol. 13 No. 2 December 2008
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura
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Articles 
Structures of Denial: Student Representation in Nepal’s Higher Education 235 
Pramod Bhatta, Lila Adhikari, Manu Thada, and Ramesh Rai 
‘We Women have to Get Married off’: Obedience, Accommodation, and Resistance in the Narrative of a Yolmo Woman from Nepal 265 
Seika Sato 
‘The Business Nursing Complex’:
Understanding Nursing Training in Nepal 297

Radha Adhikari 
The Changes in Cultural Practices and Identities of a Nepali Musician Caste: The Gandharbas from Wandering Bards to…

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol. 19 No.2 December 2014
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fumikura, Lokranjan Parajuli, Yogesh Raj
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CONTENTS
Articles
Mona Chettri
Interpreting Democracy: Ethnic Politics and Democracy in the Eastern Himalaya
Pages 205–229

Ingemar Grandin
A Young Person’s Guide to the Cultural Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley: The Song Kaul? Kachal? and Its Video
Pages 231–267

Diwakar Acharya
Remarriage, Adultery and Reproduction in Ancient Nepal
Pages 269–288

Krishna Hachhethu
Nepal: Inclusive Democracy and Political Parties
Pages 289–322

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.12, No.2 December 2007
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura
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Is Nepal in South Asia? The Condition of Non-Postcoloniality    207
Mary Des Chene
Nepali Modernities and Postmodernities: Theater, Culture and Politics    225
Sanjeev Uprety
Reflections on the Social Embeddedness of S&T in Rural and Agricultural 
Transformations: Learning from Positive Experiences of Poverty Reduction 
and Social Inclusion in Nepal 251
Stephen D. Biggs
(Rule of) Law, Justice and the Legal Process: A Case Study of 
a Land Dispute in Nepal  …

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.13 No.1 June 2008
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura
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In This 25th Issue

- Politics of Citizenship: Madeshi Exclusion
- Social Dimensions of Drug Abuse
- Parentocracy in Basic Education
- Why One-Laptop-per-Child?
- Nepal Police and Social Inclusion
- Organizing Janajati Women
- Book Reviews

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.14, No.1 June 2009
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura
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- Child Soldiers in Nepali Ethnopsychology
- Bhutanese Refugee Concepts of Youth
- Idea of Maoist Youth New Man
- Youth and Generational Politics
- Distribution of Geographical Accessibility
- Constituent Assembly Process
- Book Review

 

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.15 No.1, June 2010
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura
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- UNISCO and Cultural Heritage Preservation
- 'Health Camps' and Medical Voluntourism
- Historical Roots of Social Exclusion
- Educational Inequality amongst Newars
- Rajneesh Movement in Nepal
- Book Reviews
- Constitutional Complexities
- Public Opinion Polls

 

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.15 No.2, December 2010
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikara
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In This issue:
Dohori: 
Communist Language and Democratic Hopes
Why Chantyals are Missing in Higher Education
Ideological Evolution of the Nepali Maoist
Boris and Kathmandu's Royal Hotel
Nepali Academic Journals
Book Reviews
Newar Identity Revisited
Absent CA Members


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

The Ideological Evolution of the Nepali Maoists    217
Aditya Adhikari

The Key to an Oriental World: 
Boris Lissanevitch, Kathmandu’s Royal Hotel, and the “Golden Age”…

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.16 No.1 June 2011
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura
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In this Issue:

- Organic Farming in Pokhara
- Nepali Ayurveda
- why Tamangs are Missing in Higher Education
- Civil Society in Post-conflict Nepal
- Commentary on the CA Process
- Ethics and Pharmaceutical Regulation 
- Future of linguistic Nationalism 
- Book Review

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.16 No.2 December 2011
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura
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In this issue:
- Civil War and International Aid
- Maoists and Dalits
- CPN-M's International Relations
- Book Review
- YCL Cadres in Nepal's Transition
- People's War and the Disappeared
- International Policy Approaches to 'Child Soldiers'

Studies in
Nepali History
and Society 
Volume 16 No. 2 December 2011 (Pus 2068 v.s.)

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Special Theme: The Aftermath of the People’s War
Guest edited by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and…

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.17 No.1 June 2012
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura, Lokranjan Parajuli
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In this issue:

- Madhes and the Nepali State
- Reading Maoist Memoirs
- Corporate Friendly Nepali Dailies
- Rural Reporting
- Reading Historical Texts from South Asia
- Locating Place in Samrat Upadhyaya's Fiction
- Mawdudi's Islamic Revivalist Ideology
- Book Reviews

Studies in
Nepali History
and Society 
Volume 17 No. 1 June 2012 (Asàr 2069 v.s.)

CONTENTS

Editorial Note    1

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Khattam Kathmandu: The Question of Place…

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.17, No. 2 December 2012
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura, Lokranjan Parajuli
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Studies in
Nepali History
and Society 
Volume 17 No. 2 December 2012 (Pus 2069 v.s.)

CONTENTS

Articles
The “Age of Hippies”: Nepalis Make Sense of 
Budget Tourists in the 1960s and 1970s    211    00
Mark Liechty

Historicizing State ‘Fragility’ in Nepal    263 
Seira Tamang    

From Controlling Access to Crafting Minds: 
Experiments in Education in Late Rana Nepal    297
Lokranjan Parajuli

Some Aspects of Nepal’s Social Demography: 
Update 2011 333  …

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.18 No.1 June 2013
Author Name: Pratyoush, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura, Lokranjan Parajuli, Yogesh Raj
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-    Royal Palace Massacre: Rumors and Print Media
-    The 1954 Flood and the Rise of Shah Monarchy
-    Contesting Dalit Identity
-    Book Review
-    Emerging Urban Form in Kathmandu
-    Professional Organizations of Nepali Academics
-    Drug Addiction among Nepali Children in Hong Kong

 

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.18 No.2 December 2013
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark LIechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura, Lokranjan Parajuli, Yogesh Raj
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Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS)

Volume 18 No. 2 December 2013 (Pus 2070 v.s.)

 

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Special Theme: Gender and Contemporary Experience in Nepal

Guest edited by Barbara Hypatia Grossman-Thompson

 

Introduction: New Research on Gender and Contemporary Experience in Nepal 

Barbara Hypatia Grossman-Thompson

 

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The Fragility and Flexibility of Culture: Manifestations of Gender and Modernity within the Dangaura Tharu Sakhy?-Paiy? N?c 

Victoria Dalzell

 

Nepali Menstruation Rituals: A Remnant of Tradition or Evidence of Modernity? 

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.19 No.1 June 2014
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fumikura, Lokranjan Parajuli, Yogesh Raj
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Articles
Loss of Epistemic Diversity: Academic Historiography
in Post-1950 Nepal    1
Yogesh Raj

The Influence of Community Group Experiences on Gender
and Family Related Attitudes    41
Meeta S. Pradhan

Nation Building, Squatting and the Negotiation of Land
and Legitimacy in Nepal    85
Kathleen M. Gallagher

Outliers: Sunil Babu Pant, the Blue Diamond Society,
and Queer Organizing in Nepal    113
Kyle Knight

Book Reviews
Gaura Prasai, Mer? J?vank? P?n?
and…

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and SocietyI(SINHAS): Vol.11, No.1 June 2006
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tama
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Editorial 
Reflections on the First Decade of SINHAS    1
Articles
“Learning to be Modern”: Mass Media and Identity in Kathmandu    3
Mark Liechty
Violence, Non-violence, Sacrifice, Rebellion, and the State 31
David Holmberg
Representing INGO-NGO Relations in Nepal: Are We Being Donor-Centric?    65
Celayne Heaton Shrestha
Revisiting Ethnography, Recognizing a Forgotten People: 
the Thangmi of Nepal and India 97
Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin
Commentary
Damme, This…

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Socity (SINHAS): Vol. 14, No.2 December 2009
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang, Tatsuro Fujikura
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- Future of Nepali Identity
- Book Review
- Politics of Land Reforms
- CA Update
- FECONFUN and Civic Action
- Work of Fr John K Locke
- Independent Radio's First Decade
- 50 Years of French Anthroplogy of Nepal

 

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.7, No.2 December 2002
Author Name: Pratyosh Onta, Mary Des Chene, Seir
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Articles:
Tatsuro Fujikura - Technologies of Improvement, Locations of Culture: American Discourses of Democracy and 'Community Development' in Nepal. Page 271-311
Bikas Pandey - Local Benefits From Hydro Development. Page 313-344
Kamal R. Adhikary - Naming Ceremonies as Rituals of Development. Page 345-364
Bhushan Tuladhar - Kathmandu's Garbage: Simple Solutions Going to Waste. Page 365-393
Katharine N. Rankin - Planning for Equity: Ethical Principles from Newar Representations of Finance. Page 395-421
Literature Review:

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.8, No.1 June 2003
Author Name: Pratyosh Onta, Mary Des Chene, Seir
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Articles:
Yasuko Fujikura - Borders and boundaries in the era of AIDS: Trafficking in women and prostitution in Nepal. Page 1-35 
Devraj Humagain – Radio Nepalka karyakram: Ardhasatabdiko samiksha.Page 37-66
Mahendra Lawoti - The Maoists and minorities: overlap of interests or a case of exploitation?.Page 67-97
Rhoderick Chalmers - From Sanskrit semantics to the social sciences in Nepal: some considerations on orientalisms and epistemologies. Page 99-124 
Pratyoush Onta - The institutional future of academic history…

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Book Name: Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS): Vol.8, No.2 December 2003
Author Name: Pratyoush Onta, Mery Des Chene, Sei
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Articles :
Bryan Maddox - Language policy: Modernist ambivalence and social exclusion: A case study of Rupandehi district in Nepal’s tarai. Page 205-224
Seira Tamang - Patriarchy and the production of homo-erotic behavior in Nepal. Page 225-258
Bhaskar Gautam - Nepalma swayamsewa: Pharakilo abhyas sangai badalindo swarup. Page 259-315 
Jana Fortier - Reflections on Raute identity. Page 317-348

Commentary:
Kumar Pandey - The micro-calculus of benefits and sacrifices of bikas: experiences from a power plant.…

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