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Possible Ethnic Revolution Or Insurgency In A Predatory Unitary Hindu State, Nepal |
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 16:05 |
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- Dr. Krishna B. Bhattachan
The twentieth century, according to Migdal (1974:226) has been "the century of peasant revolution" and the coming twenty-first century, according to Huntington (1997), shall be a century of "clash of civilizations and the remaking of the world order." Fortunately or unfortunately, Nepal did not witness a peasant or any other revolution till now. Does it mean that there would be no ethnic conflicts/clashes/insurgencies or social conflicts or a revolution in Nepal in the twenty-first century? We know, following Piven and Cloward (1979:xi), that "popular insurgency does not proceed by someone else's rules or hopes; it has its own logic and direction. It flows from historically specific circumstances: it is a reaction against those circumstances, and it is also limited, by those circumstances."
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