LEADER 03040cam a2200445Ii 4500001 99125474494806421 005 20240725044708.0 008 200801t20212021ii a b 001 0 eng d 020 9789389449235 |qhardcover 020 9389449235 |qhardcover 035 (OCoLC)on1302335194 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dERASA |dDKAGE |dYUS |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dYDX 043 a-np--- 050 4 HN670.9.A8 |bS53 2021 082 04 306.095496 |223 100 1 Sharma, Jeevan Raj, |eauthor. 245 10 Political economy of social change and development in Nepal / |cJeevan R. Sharma. 264 1 New Delhi : |bBloomsbury India, |c2021. 264 4 |c©2021 300 xii, 215 pages : |billustrations ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 Nepal has been undergoing tumultuous socio-political and economic changes since the 1950s. At the macro-level, politically, Nepal has leapfrogged from a feudal, hierarchical monarchy to a republican order that has attempted to engrain ideas of human rights, equality and inclusive citizenship. Economically, there has been a gradual shift in the political economy of rural livelihoods with the commodification of land and labour, the widespread flows of cash and financialisation and extensive out-migration, with the countryside deeply penetrated by the ideas as well as the material aspects of development, market and modernity. What does it mean to talk about change, transformation and transition in Nepal beyond its stereotypical image of fatalism and immobility? How are powerful historical processes experienced and negotiated in Nepal? How might we assess the paradoxical effects of these transformations in people's lives and livelihoods, both in terms of expanding ideas of rights and freedom while also producing vulnerabilities and precarity?Drawing on insights from field research carried out in Nepal since 2004, this book engages with these questions and considers whether and how Nepal's political economy might have been transformed since the 1950s while situating these changes in Nepal's modern history and its location in the global economic system. 650 0 Social change |zNepal. 651 0 Nepal |xSocial conditions |y20th century. 650 0 Economic development |zNepal. 651 0 Nepal |xEconomic conditions |y20th century. 650 7 Economic development. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00901785 650 7 Economic history. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 Social change. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01122310 650 7 Social conditions. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 Nepal. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01206102 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 910 |cG0601mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h239476 914 (OCoLC)on1302335194 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240717 |eprocessed |f1302335194 980 16868133 |i115.00 |j94.30 |n40030965602 982 |cf |q32101101676979 986 |hHN670.9.A8 |iS53 2021