Salient Features Presents a comprehensive, indepth and updated socio-cultural profile of the Tharu and their habitat. - Indepth documentation of various facets

The Tharu of lowland Nepal are a group of culturally and linguistically diverse people who, only a few generations ago, would not have acknowledged each other a

This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process

Includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than 60 other writers of the 18th and 19th cen

With its systematic coverage of different groups, this book demonstrates how similar trends of ethnic formation are affecting all parts of Nepal. Yet, within th