Fatalism and Development

by DOR BAHADUR BISTA,

ISBN:	9788125034605
Book Name:	Fatalism and Development
Author:	DOR BAHADUR BISTA,
Publisher:	ORIENT BLACKSWAN
Edition:	REPRI
Language:	English
Binding:	Paper Back
Publish Year:	2021
Total Pages:	187
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A bold and incisive analysis of Nepal’s society, and its attempts to develop and respond to change, from someone who is both and insider and an outsider to Nepal. At an early age Dor Bahadur Bista travelled all over Nepal in the company of the leading anthropologist Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf which helped him acquire an insight that enables him to make an objective and frank comment on his country. The bulk of the author’s argument in this book is that Nepal’s strengths have always been in the indigenous qualities of its various ethnic groups. But it has been under the influence of other cultures which have suppressed its own strengths. He believes, that while Nepal should be open to other cultures, they should be scrutinized and their negative elements purged before they are adopted. Nepal’s future hope lies in its ethnic cultures whose simplicity provides a greater flexibility and thus a greater propensity to development and change, than the cumbersome and ossified structure of the urbane upper class, and caste, society of the Kathmandu Valley. It attempts to diagnose Nepal’s ills through the eyes of a sympathetic yet critical insider. It has something of the flavour of other such attempts: De Tocqueville’s Ancien Regime, Weber’s Protestant Ethic, Taine’s Notes upon England. It is worth considering at some length because of its insights and because Bista, as an insider, can say things which no outsider could say - Alan Macfarlane in Cambridge Anthropology.Startlingly original and closely observed stories that capture the dynamism and diversity of Nepali society in a time of great flux In Tilled Earth several compressed, poetic and deeply evocative micro-stories offer fleeting glimpses of small, private dramas of people caught midlife: an elderly woodworker loses his way in a modern Kathmandu neighbourhood; a homesick expatriate nurses a hangover; a clerk at the Ministry of Home Affairs learns to play Solitaire on the computer; a young man is drawn to politics

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