Democratic Innovations in Nepal: A Case Study of Political AcculturationUniv of California Press, 2021 M05 28 - 570 pages This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966. |
Contents
The Setting | 3 |
Historical Background | 4 |
The Shah and Rana Political Systems | 23 |
Oppositional Politics Under Rana Rule | 40 |
The 1950 Revolution | 57 |
The Search for Constitutional Democracy 195155 | 81 |
The Revolutionary Governments | 83 |
King Tribhuwans Political Experiments | 103 |
The 1959 Constitution and the General Elections | 280 |
Experiment with Parliamentary Democracy 195960 | 301 |
The Elected Nepali Congress Government | 303 |
Party Politics Under the Nepali Congress Government | 317 |
gress Government | 346 |
King Mahendra and Parliamentary | 374 |
Experiments | 395 |
The Politics of Guided Democracy | 420 |
Party Politics in Postrevolutionary Nepal | 124 |
195155 | 148 |
The Tribhuwan Period in Retrospect | 167 |
Innovations in the Interim Political System 195559 | 177 |
King Mahendras Political Innovations | 179 |
The Prelude to the 1959 General Elections | 205 |
The Record | 225 |
The Parties Prepare for the Elections | 257 |
Political Organizations and Panchayat | 443 |
Policy and Program of the Royal Regime | 465 |
Patterns and Trends in Nepals Political | 485 |
Notes | 519 |
| 531 | |
Glossary | 541 |
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