Win Essays On The Sociology Of Nepal Portrayed By Chaitanya Mishra Represented In Digital Copy

on the Sociology of Nepal brings together, for the first time, essays written over twoandahalf decades by a leading sociologist in the country, Dr.
Chaitanya Mishra. It contains an array of analytical and perceptive essays on underdevelopment, growth of the social sciences, foreign aid, the Maoist insurgency, etc, Some of the essays in the collection are prophetic: for example, the author had correctly predicted that the Maoists would centerstage politics rather than armed struggle and that the privileged as well as the disadvantaged would come together to fight against the king.
It also features a hitherto

unpublished essay on the April transition, where Dr, Mishra argues that the foundational causes of the transition have to be found in societywide changes rather than in the actions of the political parties and the Maoists.


The book helps one understand the political, social and economic landscape of Nepal, It should prove indispensable to academics, researchers, social science students, development workers and anyone interested in the undercurrents that shape Nepali politics,

Chaitanya Mishra is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, He is the author, most recently, of Punjibad ra Nepal Capitalism and Nepal, He is also the coauthor of the Human Development Report,and the coeditor of Development Practices in Nepal, a collection of scholarly papers, .