01426nam a22002057a 4500003000900000005001700009008004100026020001800067040003300085050001800118245004000136260003100176300002000207520087200227700003101099700003701130700002801167887001901195888000601214BDCtgAUW20260406181514.0260324b        np ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789937623537  aBDCtgAUWcBDCtgAUWdBDCtgAUW  aDS493.8b.N37  aNationalism and ethnicity in Nepal/  aNepal:bVajra Books,c2016  a623 p.;c23 cm.  aFor nearly 240 years (1768-2006) either the Shah dynasty or their Rana Prime Ministers ruled Nepal in the name of Hinduism; in more recent times Shah kings claimed also to embody national unity in their own person. Since the nineteenth century Nepal has experienced the autocracy of the Ranas, a first experiment with parliamentarianism, guided partyless democracy led by the king, multi-party constitutional monarchy (including an elected minority communist government for nine months, 1994-5), royal reaction (2004-6) finally reversed by massive street protests, a ten-year 'People's War' launched by the Maoists in 1996, followed by a peace process and elections to a Constituent Assembly in April 2008 in which the Maoists emerged as the largest single party with almost 30% of the vote. In all this, national and ethnic questions have been of crucial importance.10a Gellner, David N.eEditor10a Pfaff-Czarnecka, JoannaeEditor10a Whelpton, JohneEditor  28aPapia Akter  28