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Revolution in Nepal : An anthropological and historical approach to the People's War / edited by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine.

Contributor(s): Publisher: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: x, 432 pages : map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198089384 (hbk.)
  • 0198089384 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.96 LEC 23
LOC classification:
  • DS495.6 .R48 2013
Contents:
Table of contents LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION, BMARIE LECOMTE-TILOUINE; PART I: EASTWARD; 1. POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN NEPAL FROM 'UNIFICATION' TO 'JANANDOLAN I': THE BACKGROUND TO 'PEOPLE'S WAR', JOHN WHELPTON; 2. RAMRAJA PRASAD SINGH: THE WARRIOR REVOLUTIONARY, C.K. LAL; 3. RESISTING THE STATE IN EAST NEPAL: THE 'CHINTANG INCIDENT' OF 1979 AND THE POLITICS OF COMMEMORATION, MARTIN GAENSZLE, ICHCHHA PURNA RAI, JUDITH PETTIGREW, MANOJ RAI, BALTHASAR BICKEL, GOMA BANJADE, TOYA NATH BHATTA, ELENA LIEVEN, NETRA PRASAD PAUDYAL, AND SABINE STOLL; 4. THE MAOISTS IN EASTERN NEPAL: THE EXAMPLE OF KHOTANG, PUSTAK GHIMIRE; PART II: WESTWARD; 5. THE CPN-MASAL BASTION: A HISTORY OF COMMUNIST MILITANCY IN PYUTHAN DISTRICT AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE PEOPLE'S WAR, BENOIT CAILMAIL; 6. THABANG: THE CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION, ANNE DE SALES; 7. MAOIST DESPITE THEMSELVES: AMID THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN A MAOIST MODEL VILLAGE, NORTHERN GULMI, MARIE LECOMTE-TILOUINE; 8. THE POLITICAL CONTEXT AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN JUMLA, SATYA SHRESTHA-SCHIPPER; PART III: WITHIN THE PARTY; 9. INSIDE THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY: A MILITARY PERSPECTIVE, SAM COWAN; 10. 'LOVE-MARRIAGE-SEX' IN THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY OF NEPAL: THE LIBIDINAL ECONOMY OF A GREEDY INSTITUTION, LAURENT GAYER; 11. TEARS FOR THE REVOLUTION: NEPALI MUSICAL NATIONALISM, EMOTION, AND THE MAOIST MOVEMENT, ANNA STIRR; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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Includes bibliographical references (page 393-411) and index.

Table of contents
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES;
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS;
INTRODUCTION, BMARIE LECOMTE-TILOUINE;
PART I: EASTWARD; 1. POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN NEPAL FROM 'UNIFICATION' TO 'JANANDOLAN I': THE BACKGROUND TO 'PEOPLE'S WAR', JOHN WHELPTON;
2. RAMRAJA PRASAD SINGH: THE WARRIOR REVOLUTIONARY, C.K. LAL;
3. RESISTING THE STATE IN EAST NEPAL: THE 'CHINTANG INCIDENT' OF 1979 AND THE POLITICS OF COMMEMORATION, MARTIN GAENSZLE, ICHCHHA PURNA RAI, JUDITH PETTIGREW, MANOJ RAI, BALTHASAR BICKEL, GOMA BANJADE, TOYA NATH BHATTA, ELENA LIEVEN, NETRA PRASAD PAUDYAL, AND SABINE STOLL;
4. THE MAOISTS IN EASTERN NEPAL: THE EXAMPLE OF KHOTANG, PUSTAK GHIMIRE; PART II: WESTWARD;
5. THE CPN-MASAL BASTION: A HISTORY OF COMMUNIST MILITANCY IN PYUTHAN DISTRICT AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE PEOPLE'S WAR, BENOIT CAILMAIL;
6. THABANG: THE CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION, ANNE DE SALES;
7. MAOIST DESPITE THEMSELVES: AMID THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN A MAOIST MODEL VILLAGE, NORTHERN GULMI, MARIE LECOMTE-TILOUINE;
8. THE POLITICAL CONTEXT AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN JUMLA, SATYA SHRESTHA-SCHIPPER; PART III: WITHIN THE PARTY;
9. INSIDE THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY: A MILITARY PERSPECTIVE, SAM COWAN;
10. 'LOVE-MARRIAGE-SEX' IN THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY OF NEPAL: THE LIBIDINAL ECONOMY OF A GREEDY INSTITUTION, LAURENT GAYER;
11. TEARS FOR THE REVOLUTION: NEPALI MUSICAL NATIONALISM, EMOTION, AND THE MAOIST MOVEMENT, ANNA STIRR; BIBLIOGRAPHY;
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS