The Politics of Purity: Democratic transformations in Nepal’s southern borderland
Abstract
The Politics of Purity considers how democracy is experienced and morally inhabited in Nepal’s southern borderland. Based on two years of fieldwork in Birgunj, an iconic border city that has a history of ethnic activism, the dissertation analyses political life in the years following the country’s 2008 transformation from a Hindu kingdom to a federal democratic republic. This transformation is part of a larger phenomenon that scholars have called the ‘democratisation of democracy’ in South A...
Fields of Study & Subjects
Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nepal
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Publication details
- Journal / source
- European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
- Volume
- 66
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN