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Democratic Innovations, Globalisation and Identity Formation

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The Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal

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Abstract

The new democracies of South Asia, like Nepal, overwhelmed by the idea of advanced democracies of the West, fail to design a democratic model best suited to its sociopolitical structure. Additionally, defining democracy in a relatively divided society has been a challenging task for any emerging democracy especially in terms of accommodating these diversities. In the process of defining democracy which holds the diversity together, the state automatically becomes hegemonic However, at the same time, this model provides a space for these diversities to retaliate with the state. This chapter elaborates on the process of democratisation vis-à-vis globalisation of Nepal and its relation to the ethnic turmoil in Madhes.

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Jha, K. (2017). Democratic Innovations, Globalisation and Identity Formation. In: The Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal. SpringerBriefs in Anthropology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2926-4_4

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