Year: 2022
Type: book-review
Abstract: Jeevan Sharma has offered up a bold and tidy review of the social and political impact of seventy years of development in Nepal.The book has several special merits to mention.It has a strong conceptual clarity of purpose.It adopts an integrative approach to relate political and policy domains to conditions on the ground, with dynamic shifts in patterns of inequality, and with the responses to political economic change by different categories of Nepalis.Furthermore, the author brings his expertise in migration studies to illuminate the characteristics and theorisation of this phenomenon, which has come to dominate contemporary understandings of Nepal's social change and the role of the state.
DOI: 10.4000/ebhr.475
Author: Ben Campbell
Institution: Durham University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4286238529