Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal
Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal

Author: Ina Zharkevich

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-09

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1108600387

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By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War (1996–2006) transformed Nepali society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people who were located at the epicentre of the conflict, including both ardent Maoist supporters and 'reluctant rebels', it explores how a remote Himalayan village was forged as the centre of the Maoist rebellion, how its inhabitants coped with the situation of war and the Maoist regime of governance, and how they came to embrace the Maoist project and maintain ordinary life amidst the war while living in a guerilla enclave. By focusing on people's everyday lives, the book illuminates how the everyday became a primary site of revolution of crafting new subjectivities, introducing 'new' social practices and displacing the 'old' ones, and reconfiguring the ways that people act in and think about the world through the process of 'embodied change'.

Himalayan People's War
Himalayan People's War

Author: Michael Hutt

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780253345226

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Provides authoritative background and interpretation of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal.

The Bullet and the Ballot Box
The Bullet and the Ballot Box

Author: Aditya Adhikari

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1781685649

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The Bullet and the Ballot Box offers a rich and sweeping account of a decade of revolutionary upheaval. When Nepal’s Maoists launched their armed rebellion in the nineties, they had limited public support and many argued that their ideology was obsolete. Twelve years later they were in power, and their ambitious plan of social transformation dominated the national agenda. How did this become possible? Adhikari’s narrative draws on a broad range of sources – including novels, letters and diaries – to illuminate the history and human drama of the Maoist revolution. An indispensible account of Nepal’s recent history, the book offers a fascinating case study of how communist ideology has been reinterpreted and translated into political action in the twenty-first century.

Maoists at the Hearth
Maoists at the Hearth

Author: Judith Pettigrew

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2013-06-14

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0812244923

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Based on ethnographic research, this book provides insights on the Maoist insurgency from 1996 to 2006, the impact of the war on every day life in the villages and the effect the conflict had on the area even after the war ended.

The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

Author: Mahendra Lawoti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1135261687

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The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), explaining the different causes, factors that contributed to its growth, strategies employed by the rebels and the state, and the consequences of the insurgency.

Himalayan People's War
Himalayan People's War

Author: Michael Hutt

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2004-10-18

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780253217424

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Includes full text of key documents by the rebels and government.

Cold War in the High Himalayas
Cold War in the High Himalayas

Author: S Mahmud Ali

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1136826483

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This text examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s. The book highlights the consequent linkages in alliance-building efforts and the subsequent triangular covert collaboration against Communist China, especially along Tibet's Himalayan frontiers. This secret alliance had an unexpected fall-out on the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. Lastly the book examines the divergence of Indo-Pakistani security policies along fundamental cleavages since the 1960s.

The Origins of Himalayan Studies
The Origins of Himalayan Studies

Author: David Waterhouse

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-10-28

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1134383649

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Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and published extensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics. Contributors from leading historians of Nepal and South Asia and from specialists in Buddhist studies, art history, linguistics, ornithology and ethnography, critically examine Hodgson's life and achievement within the context of his contribution to scholarship. Many of the drawings photographed for this book have not previously been published.

Shadow States
Shadow States

Author: Bérénice Guyot-Réchard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1107176794

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This book explores Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of state-building, showing how they stem from their competition for the Himalayan people's allegiance.