Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal RelationsPsychology Press, 2004 - 224 pages This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous tribal people in East Nepal, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. Describing the divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of confrontation over land, the book nonetheless stresses how they are linked by ties of economic and political interdependence and in so doing, explores the link between culture and politics. |
Contents
The setting | 11 |
Land and kin groups | 29 |
View of the Indreni settlement area facing page | 48 |
A poor mans house of bamboo and mud | 48 |
Planting paddy in terraces | 48 |
the cleavage | 57 |
Musicians entertain at a paddy planting | 64 |
Brahman joint family | 64 |
A Limbu girl fetches water | 144 |
A Limbu phedangma performs a curing rite | 144 |
East Nepal page xvi | 146 |
24 | 172 |
Land culture and politics | 180 |
Conclusion | 196 |
The measurement of land | 205 |
28 | 207 |
the economic context | 91 |
military service | 113 |
the political context | 125 |
Ilam Bazaar on market day | 128 |
Portering timber to earn cash | 128 |
Glossary | 215 |
34 | 217 |
| 221 | |
Other editions - View all
Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations Lionel Caplan Limited preview - 2023 |
Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-tribal Relations Lionel Caplan Limited preview - 1970 |
Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations Lionel Caplan Limited preview - 2021 |
Common terms and phrases
administration agnates agricultural amount Angbung army bard Bharapa Bishnu Prasad bridewealth brothers cash caste Chitok Chongbung commensal context court creditors cultivate cultural Dasein dependents disputes district Dorumba earn east Nepal economic fact faction leader father groups Gurkha headmen Hindu holding husband Ilam Bazaar Ilam district income India Indreni Cluster Indreni Limbus Indreni settlements Jahare Jaisi Kabir Hang Kambo Kathmandu kinsmen kipat land kipat system kipat tenure kipat-owner labour Lajahang latter Limbu households Limbu Notables Limbuan Limbus and Brahmans lineage mates loans Main Landholders maize marriage married mediation ment mortgage Narad Muni natal neighbours Nembeke Newar non-Limbu ownership rights paddy Panchayat Committee Panchayat system Pathi payments pensions pledged political population Punja quarrel raikar land raikar tenure Ram Chandra recruited relations relationships resident rights to kipat rites ritual settlement cluster status Subbas taxes tenants Terai Tharis tion traditional tribal Tunka Nath usufruct village wealth wife