Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
1 A Hero or a Traitor? The Gurkha Soldier in Nepali Literature11
2 The Poetry of Mohan Koirala 27
3 The Nepali Literature of the 1990 Democracy 49
Movement and its Aftermath
4 Devkota's Muna Madan: An Introduction 69
5 Looking for Shangri-la: From Hilton to Lamichhane 83
6 Going to Mugalan: Nepali Literary Representations 99
of Migration to India and Bhutan
7 Reading Sumnima 123
8 Ideal Nepal and the Voices of Nepali Writers 141
9 Bhupi Sherchan: From Schoolboy to Sarvahara 165
Index 189