Other Events

Panel book discussion on ‘Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal: Identities and Mobilization after 1990’
edited by Mahendra Lawoti and Susan Hangen
(organised with Routledge and Mandala Book Point)

31 December 2012

Mahendra Lawoti introduced the book, followed by presentations made by individual authors on their chapters and a Q&A session. The event was moderated by Dipak Gyawali of Social Science Baha.

The following contributors to the book spoke during the occasion:

• Krishna Bhattachan (Tribhuvan University): ‘Ethnopolitics and Ethnodevelopment: An Emerging Paradigm in Nepal—with a Postscript’
• Mahendra Lawoti (Western Michigan University): ‘Dynamics of Mobilization: Varied Trajectories of  Dalit, Indigenous Nationalities, and Madhesi Movements’; and ‘Transforming Ethnic Politics, Transforming the Nepali Polity: From Peaceful Nationalist Mobilization to the Rise of Armed Separatist Groups’
• Mallika Shakya (University of Pretoria): ‘Nepali Economic History through the Ethnic Lens: Changing State Alliances with Business Elites’
• Mollica Dastider (University of Delhi): ‘Refusing to Choose: The Muslim Madhesis and the Coexistence of Religious and Regional Identity in Nepal’s Tarai’
• Steven Folmar (Wake Forest University): ‘Problems of Identity for Dalits in Nepal’s Nationalist Project’