The Nepali monarchy has always used Hinduism and the army to exercise control. Now, with all political parties coming together to remove the army from control by the palace, the monarchy's future...
Nepal: Towards a Democratic Republic
The overthrow of the autocratic party-less panchayat system in Nepal in 1990 was an advance, but what followed was a completely degenerate form of parliamentary politics. In the background of these...
Nepal faces the danger of an all-out ethnic war breaking out in the Tarai between madhesis and parbatiyas. But, in most of the country there are so many complex and crosscutting ethnic allegiances...
Following the June 1, 2001 murder of king Birendra and the royal family, the US intervened militarily in Nepal. At first India closely coordinated with the US strategy for the military defeat of the...
