Table of Contents
Reprinting Rights Acknowledgments vii
Preface xi
Introduction 1
Assessing Nepali Transition
Pranab Kharel
Claim Making: Contestation and Remolding for Identities
1. Debating Civil Society: Nagarik Samaj and Nagarik Discourse in Nepal’s People’s Movement II 37
Chudamani Basnet
2. Understanding Madhesi Contentions 65
Bhaskar Gautam
3. Politicizing Ethnicity: Tharu Contestation of Madheshi Identity in Nepal’s Tarai 97
Krishna Pandey
4. Writing Citizenship: Gender, Race and Tactical Alliances in Nepal’s Constitution Drafting 123
Surabhi Pudasaini
5. Indigenous People’s Struggle for Political Rights and Recognition: Constitution-making and Federal Design 163
Mukta S. Tamang
6. Chequered Trajectory of State Restructuring Process: A Study of Chhetri Mobilization 195
Ujjwal Prasai
7. Federalization and the Dalits 237
Yam Bahadur Kisan
8. Homogenization of Social Movement Dynamics under a “Clever” Nepali State, 2007–2012 261
Lokranjan Parajuli
Constituent Assembly: A Space for Transformative Politics or Power Aggrandizement?
9. The Debilitating Dynamics of Nepal’s First Constituent Assembly (2008–2012) 293
Martin Chautari
10. Attendance and Process in Constituent Assembly-II 317
Martin Chautari
11. Participatory Constitution-making in Nepal (2008–2015) 333
Krishna P. Khanal
A Long Wait: The Issue of Transitional Justice and the Future of Former Maoist Combatants
12. The Politics of Loss in the People’s War and Its Aftermath: The Disappeared as Kin, Citizens and Warriors 383
Ruth Marsden
13. Transitional Justice as an Elite Discourse: Human Rights Practice Where the Global Meets the Local in Post-conflict Nepal 415
Simon Robins
14. Dealing with Ex-Combatants in a Negotiated Peace Process: Impacts of Transitional Politics on the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program in Nepal 455
DB Subedi
Notes on Contributors 489
Chronology of Major Events 493