Fatalism and Development: Nepal's Struggle for ModernizationOrient Blackswan, 1991 - 184 Seiten The book concentrates on the social and cultural factors which lie behind the current Nepal crisis locating the root cause in the Brahmin-Chhetri minority which dominates Kathmandu and other towns. Fatalism and the caste system still flourish behind the facade of modern bureaucracy, at all levels of government, in education, foreign aid, politics and administration. The author attempts to distill all his experience into a portrait of his society. |
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activities administrative afno manchhe agricultural areas attitude background Bahun Bahun priests become behaviour believe Bista Brahmans Buddhist bureaucracy caste groups caste principles caste status caste system century chakari chapter Chhetri child Consequently considered deities district economic ethnic groups fatalism fatalistic father foreign aid Gandaki Gangetic Gurung hierarchic caste high caste Hindus Himalayas Hindu Hinduism important India indigenous individual Jyapu Kathmandu Valley Khas King Kirat labour Licchavi Limbu low caste Magar Malla Manusmriti Matwali ment Ministry modern mother motivation National Panchayat Nepal Nepali culture Nepali society NESP Newar one's Pathsala planning political position practice projects pundits Rana region religion religious responsibility ritual role Sanskrit schools sense Shaivism Shamans Shrestha Shudra skills social organization structure Sunuwar Terai Thakali Thakuri Tharu Tibetan Tibeto-Burmese tion traditional Tribhuvan University upper class various village western women
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Seite 161 - Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life...
Seite 54 - ... matter," and the desire to build an efficient, dynamic modern state. The one aim is to be noticed: it is a search for an identity, and a demand that the identity be publicly acknowledged as having import, a social assertion of the self as "being somebody in the world.
Seite 57 - When we speak of communalism in India we refer to religious contrasts; when we speak of it in Malaya we are mainly concerned with racial ones, and in the Congo with tribal ones. But the grouping under a common rubric is not simply adventitious; the phenomena referred to are in some way similar. Regionalism has been the main theme in Indonesian disaffection, differences in custom in Moroccan. The Tamil minority in Ceylon is set off from the Sinhalese majority by religion, language, race, region, and...
Seite 58 - Tamil minority in Ceylon is set off from the Sinhalese majority by religion, language, race, region, and social custom; the Shiite minority in Iraq is set off from the dominant Sunnis virtually by an intra-Islamic sectarian difference alone. Pan-national movements in Africa are largely based on race, in Kurdistan, on tribalism; in Laos, the Shan States, and Thailand, on language. Yet all these phenomena, too, are in some sense of a piece. They form a definable field of investigation. That is, they...
Seite 58 - ... Malaya we are mainly concerned with racial ones, and in the Congo with tribal ones. But the grouping under a common rubric is not simply adventitious; the phenomena referred to are in some way similar. Regionalism has been the main theme in Indonesian disaffection, differences in custom in Moroccan. The Tamil minority in Ceylon is set off from the Sinhalese majority by religion, language, race, region, and social custom; the Shiite minority in Iraq is set off from the dominant Sunnis virtually...
Seite 161 - Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.