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<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> This book describes and analyzes the processes by which recent economic and political developments have impinged on traditional social institutions and relationships within a small (bazaar) town in the far western mountains of Nepal, and affected the historic links between townspeople and villagers who live in the surrounding countryside. It also assesses the implications for local people of the district administration in their midst.</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous "tribal" people, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. It describes the deep divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of an historic confrontation over land. In the widest sense it is concerned with the reaction of one community to domination by another. To preserve their ancestral lands under a traditional tenure system indigenous people stress their common identity and cultural apartness from the rest of Nepalese society. This book therefore explores the link between culture and politics in a community subordinated by a more powerful group and threatened with what it regards as economic disaster and cultural annihilation.</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous "tribal" people, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. It describes the deep divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of an historic confrontation over land. In the widest sense it is concerned with the reaction of one community to domination by another. To preserve their ancestral lands under a traditional tenure system indigenous people stress their common identity and cultural apartness from the rest of Nepalese society. This book therefore explores the link between culture and politics in a community subordinated by a more powerful group and threatened with what it regards as economic disaster and cultural annihilation.</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> After reviewing scholarly debates regarding the usefulness of distinguishing, descriptively or analytically, the differences between "tribes" and "castes"/ "peasants," the paper proposes a contrast between these two categories in terms of their relationship to land. Thus, whereas most "caste-peasants" in east Nepal enjoyed land under <em>raikar</em> tenure – a form of freehold – which could be bought and sold, the "tribal" Limbus traditionally possessed theirs under what was termed <em>kipat</em> – which was inalienable and acquired only through kinship rights. <em>Kipat</em> was thus more than an economic asset; it was the basis of their identity as a people. In this sense they shared a conception of land as held by countless indigenous or "tribal" people in south Asia and elsewhere. (Lionel Caplan 2010-02-01)</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> In recent years there has been a growing interest in how non-Western peoples are depicted in the literatures of the West. This study eschews the tendency to regard virtually all depictions of non-Western "others" as amenable to the same kinds of "orientalist" analysis, and argues that the portrayals found in such writings must be examined in their particular historical and political settings. These themes are explored by considering the voluminous literature about the "Gurkhas," those legendary soldiers from Nepal who have served in Britain's Imperial and post-Imperial armies for more than two centuries. The authors, most of whom are or were British officers who have served in Gurkha regiments, find in their subjects the quintessential virtues of the European officers themselves: the Gurkhas appear as warriors and gentlemen.</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> In recent years there has been a growing interest in how non-Western peoples are depicted in the literatures of the West. This study eschews the tendency to regard virtually all depictions of non-Western "others" as amenable to the same kinds of "orientalist" analysis, and argues that the portrayals found in such writings must be examined in their particular historical and political settings. These themes are explored by considering the voluminous literature about the "Gurkhas," those legendary soldiers from Nepal who have served in Britain's Imperial and post-Imperial armies for more than two centuries. The authors, most of whom are or were British officers who have served in Gurkha regiments, find in their subjects the quintessential virtues of the European officers themselves: the Gurkhas appear as warriors and gentlemen.</p>