The Politics of Purity: Democratic transformations in Nepal’s southern borderland
The Politics of Purity considers how democracy is experienced and morally inhabited in Nepal’s southern borderland. Based on two years of fieldwork in Birgunj, an iconic border city that has a history of ethnic activism, the dissertation analyses political life in the years following the country’s...
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European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
2026
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The Politics of Purity considers how democracy is experienced and morally inhabited in Nepal’s southern borderland. Based on two years of fieldwork in Birgunj, an iconic border city that has a history of ethnic activism, the dissertation analyses political life in the years following the country’s 2008 transformation from a Hindu kingdom to a federal democratic republic. This transformation is part of a larger phenomenon that scholars have called the ‘democratisation of democracy’ in South A... |
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