01484nam a22002177a 4500 BDCtgAUW 20260406181514.0 260324b np ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789937623537 BDCtgAUW BDCtgAUW BDCtgAUW DS493.8 .N37 Nationalism and ethnicity in Nepal/ Nepal: Vajra Books, 2016 623 p.; 23 cm. For 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. Gellner, David N. Editor 74832 Pfaff-Czarnecka, Joanna Editor 90708 Whelpton, John Editor 5956 8 Papia Akter lcc BK 0 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC AUWL SV GEN 2026-01-16 Kamal Ahmad 0 DS493.8 .N37 033251 2026-03-24 18:00:33 2026-03-24 BK 16355 16355 8