Maoist people's war and the revolution of everyday life in Nepal
By: Zharkevich, Ina.
Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019Description: xiv, 320p.ISBN: 9781108497466.Subject(s): Politics and government-1960 -- Social life and customs -- Social conditions -- Communism -- Insurgency--Social aspects -- Ethnolog -- Civil War, 1996-2006--Social aspects -- NepalDDC classification: 954.96 Summary: By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War (1996–2006) transformed Nepali society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people who were located at the epicentre of the conflict, including both ardent Maoist supporters and 'reluctant rebels', it explores how a remote Himalayan village was forged as the centre of the Maoist rebellion, how its inhabitants coped with the situation of war and the Maoist regime of governance, and how they came to embrace the Maoist project and maintain ordinary life amidst the war while living in a guerrilla enclave.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War (1996–2006) transformed Nepali society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people who were located at the epicentre of the conflict, including both ardent Maoist supporters and 'reluctant rebels', it explores how a remote Himalayan village was forged as the centre of the Maoist rebellion, how its inhabitants coped with the situation of war and the Maoist regime of governance, and how they came to embrace the Maoist project and maintain ordinary life amidst the war while living in a guerrilla enclave.
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