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Bihari Krishna Ethnographic Research Fund

The Bihari Krishna Fellowship for Ethnographic Research was established with a grant of Rs 5 million provided by Bihari Krishna Shrestha to Social Science Baha with the express purpose of setting up a fellowship devoted to ethnographic research.

The 2013 Bihari Krishna Fellowship for Ethnographic Research has been granted to Santabir Rai, who will work under Prof. Ram Bahadur Chhetri of the Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology on the topic ‘Have Lhomi (Singsawa) Changed Their Values and Norms Pertaining to Natural Resources Management (A Study of Unheard Mountain People in the East Nepal)’ starting mid-May. The proposed research, which will focus on indigenous resources management, will explore the new forms of governance introduced in the mountain area of Nepal, where there are already indigenous governance systems, and will look into how such new governances as external interventions lead to social and cultural changes. More specifically, the research will find out whether and how new forms of governance lead to changes in people’s norms and values pertaining to natural resources (particularly, forest and pastureland in Bhotkhola region), and will also explain the social values and norms of Lhomi (Singsawa) vis-à-vis the forest and pastureland.