REVOLUTION IN NEPAL

Revolution in Nepal is a comprehensive study of the People's War in Nepal that was waged by the Maoist party. The chapters are based on extensive fieldwork conducted at the grass-roots level covering the country's rural areas from Khotang to Jumla before during and after the revolutionary movement. They focus on village life and its micro history under Maoist control. The volume also examines the War's antecedents such as the anti-Rana and anti-Panchayat movements and the various ways in which the Maoist revolution developed in the country's rural areas. Thus with an anthropological and historical approach it presents an account of the impact of the People's War in the country. By doing so it reflects the revolution brought about in the conception of Nepalese history which is now commonly presented as a series of uprisings.