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Nepal Studies Group is a small, informal association of social researchers. It developed out of our dissatisfaction with the state of scholarship on Nepali history and society. Beyond personal efforts to continue to improve our own scholarship, we have launched several projects to encourage others critically to reflect on the state of scholarship about Nepali society, particularly how portraits of Nepal, presented in scholarly forms, are disseminated and used in national and international forums, and to what effects for the well-being of the country. Thus far we have begun work in three related areas:

i) improvement of research training within Nepal (the Student Research Training Program)

ii) facilitation of serious debate among people with disparate kinds of knowledge and experience (the Nepal Studies Group Seminar Series, (see below), the Mangalbare Forum, and Anaupacarik Gaphgaph)

iii) publication of the best social analyses we can locate in the hope that they will, in time, challenge received standards for what counts as knowledge about Nepal (the journal, Studies in Nepali History and Society).

The Nepal Studies Group Seminar Series took place on alternate Thursday's of each month at the premises of Martin Chautari from May 1996 through April 1997. As we found the distinction between "academic" and "practicioner" presentations increasingly irrelevant, we decided to merge the Nepal Studies Group Seminar Series and the Mangalbare Discussion Series. Discussions are now held each Tuesday in the Mangalbare Forum. See below for a list of the talks held in the NSG series and see the Mangalbare Page for discussions held in the Mangalbare Forum from September 1995 to the present.

Presentations are made in either Nepali or English. Monthly schedules are available in Mandala Book Point, Kantipath, Kathmandu (Tel. 227711), and are also posted on these pages for the information of those who cannot attend. Martin Chautari is located in Thapathali, Kathmandu (Tel. 246065). Information is also available from Pratyoush Onta, CSRD, 15/1 Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal (Tel. 228850). Anyone wishing to discuss the possibility of presenting their research can contact Pratyoush Onta at the above address.

Discussions run from 5:30 pm until approximately 7:30 pm each Tuesday (except certain holidays as noted in the schedule). All are welcome and there is no charge, but we do request an Rs. 10 donation to assist with the cost of refreshments.

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List of Nepal Studies Group Seminar Series Presentations May 1996 - April 1997

See the Mangalbare Page for continuation of this series after April 1997 and for Mangalbare talks from September 1995 onwards.

  • Notice of Change of Schedule
    Beginning in April, 1997, Nepal Studies Group Seminar Series will take place on Tuesdays. The time of day (5:30 pm) remains the same.

  • Seira Tamang, et al.
    Civil Society: Nepali Specificities, 29 April, 1997 (in English and Nepali)

  • TBA
    Program for 8 April, 1997 will be posted shortly.

  • Dr. Pralad Yonzon
    Wildlife Conservation in Nepal: Where are we Now? 27 March, 1997 (in Nepali)

  • Buddhikrishna Dulal
    Periodic Markets in the Eastern Tarai: An Historical Analysis, 13 March, 1997 (in Nepali)

  • Dr. Chaitanya Misra (Tribhuvan University)
    The Global Village and Nepal: Economic Aspects. 27 February 1997 (in Nepali)

  • Dr. Bina Pradhan
    Gender and Development in Nepal: Where are we Now?. 23 January 1997 (in English and Nepali)

  • Dr. David Gellner (Brunel University, UK)
    Some Themes and Paradoxes in Newar Identity. 23 January 1997 (in English)

  • Dr. Ingemar Grandin (Linkoping University, Sweden)
    Musical Migrants in a Sedentarist Society: Nepalese Music beyond Ethnicity. 9 January 1997 (in English)

  • Dr. Pratyoush Onta (NSG)
    Activities in a 'Fossil' State: Balkrishna Sama and the Improvisation of Nepali Identity. 26 December 1996 (in Nepali and English)

  • Yasuko Fujikura and Shizu Upadhya
    The Status of "Status of Women in Nepal" Reports. 12 December 1996 (in English)

  • Satish K. Kharel (Nepal Law Campus)
    Nepal Judiciary after the Jan Andolan. 28 November 1996 (in Nepali)

  • Dr. N. Kaji Shrestha and Charla Britt
    Why "Finnish" Nepal's Sal Forests? Seeing the Forest for the Trees and the People. 14 November 1996 (in English and Nepali)

  • Kamal Dixit, Saradchandra S. Bhattarai, and Ghataraj Bhattarai
    Nepali Book Production and Consumption (1880-1930 A.D.). 31 October 1996 (in Nepali)

  • Krishna Hachhethu (CNAS)
    Party-Building in Post-Andolan Nepal: A Comparative Study of Nepali Congress and CPN(UML). 3 October 1996 (in Nepali and English)

  • Tatsuro Fujikura (University of Chicago, USA)
    Revisiting American Discourses of Community Development and Democracy (as applied to Nepal), 1950s-1960s. 26 September 1996 (in English)

  • Susan Hangen (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
    "Politics and Religion are like Bones and Flesh": A Gurung Gompa and Mongol National Organization in Ilam. 19 September 1996 (in English)

  • Gopal Guragai
    Nepal's Jails. 5 September 1996 (in Nepali)

  • Dr Mark Liechty (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
    Public Space and Public Practice in Kathmandu. 26 August 1996 (in English)

  • Khagendra Sangraula
    From the Jungle to the Computer: My Life. 15 August 1996 (in Nepali)

  • Dr. Mary Des Chene (NSG)
    Nepal in Kuire "Imaginaire". 8 August 1996 (in English)

  • Katharine Rankin (Cornell University, USA)
    Local-Global Articulations: Market Reforms and Newar Representations of Finance. 25 July 1996 (in English)

  • Ajaya Dixit and Dipak Gyawali (Nepal Water Conservation Foundation)
    The 1993 Flood Disaster: Community and State Response. 11 July 1996 (in Nepali)

  • Ashutosh Tiwari
    Bonded Because of the Land. 27 June 1996 (in Nepali and English)

  • Lazima Onta-Bhatta (NSG and Cornell University, USA)
    "Street Children": Tracing the History of an Identity. 13 June 1996 (in Nepali and English)

  • Dr Martin Gaenszle (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
    The Poetics of Mewahang Rai Ritual Language. 6 June 1996 (in English)

  • Dr Dilliram Dahal (CNAS/TU)
    Ethics in Anthropological Research: The Case of Nepal. 23 May 1996 (in Nepali)

  • Pratyoush Onta (NSG)
    The Place of Bir History in the Nepali National Culture. 9 May 1996 (in Nepali and English)

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