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David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka,
and John Whelpton

Nationalism and
Ethnicity in a
Hindu Kingdom
The Politics of Culture
in Contemporary Nepal

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Contents

List of Figures

xiii

List of Tables

xv

Preface
Contributors
INTRODUCTION

Ethnicity and Nationalism in the
World's only Hindu State

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David N. Gellner
Part One: Dominant and Diaspora Identities
ONE

TWO

THREE

Political Identity in Nepal:
State, Nation, and Community
John Whelpton
The King and Cow: On a Crucial
Symbol of Hinduization in Nepal
Axel Michaels
Being Nepali without Nepal:
Reflections on a South Asian Diaspora
Michael Hutt

Part Tivo: Central Nepal
FOUR

FIVE

33

39

79

101

145

Caste, Communalism, and Communism:
Newars and the Nepalese State
David N. Gellner

151

Identity and Change among the Gurungs
(Tamu-mai) of Central Nepal
Alan Macfarlane

185

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The Heavy Loads of Tamang Identity

205

Ben Campbell
Part Three: The Tarai
SEVEN

EIGHT

Defining Maithil Identity:
Who is in Charge?
Claire Burkert
Losing Ground, Gaining Ground:
Land and Change in a Tharu
Community in Dang, West Nepal

Christian McDonaugh

Part Four: East Nepal
NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

275

299

303

Identity Management and Cultural
Change: The Yakha of East Nepal
Andrew Russell

325

Changing Concepts of Ethnic
Identity among the Mewahang Rai
Martin Gaenszle

351

Tibetan Pride of Place; Or, Why Nepal's
Bhotiyas are not an Ethnic Group
Charles Ramble

Part Six: Conclusions
THIRTEEN

241

Hinduization: The Experience of
the Thulung Rai
N.J. Allen

Part Five: The Northern Fringe
TWELVE

237

Vestiges and Visions: Cultural
Change in the Process of
Nation-Building in Nepal
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

375

379

415

419

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FOURTEEN

Nation-Building, Multi-Ethnicity,
and the Hindu State

471

Prayag Raj Sharma

FIFTEEN

State and Society in Nepal

495

Harka Gurung

Glossary

533

References

555

Index

587

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