Nepal in the Nineties: Versions of the Past, Visions of the Future

This book is a collection of eight essays about the historic events that took place in Nepal in 1990. A broad-based prodemocracy movement succeeded in overthrowing the Panchayat system and a new constitution was promilgated. The essays present diverging views on the political, cultural, and social processes at work in Nepal in the decade of the 1990s. Of interest to the general reader, and to those with a special interest in Nepal, India, and the sub-continent.