Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal
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Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal

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Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal

About this book

By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War (1996–2006) transformed Nepali society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people who were located at the epicentre of the conflict, including both ardent Maoist supporters and 'reluctant rebels', it explores how a remote Himalayan village was forged as the centre of the Maoist rebellion, how its inhabitants coped with the situation of war and the Maoist regime of governance, and how they came to embrace the Maoist project and maintain ordinary life amidst the war while living in a guerilla enclave. By focusing on people's everyday lives, the book illuminates how the everyday became a primary site of revolution of crafting new subjectivities, introducing 'new' social practices and displacing the 'old' ones, and reconfiguring the ways that people act in and think about the world through the process of 'embodied change'.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Maoist People’s War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Glossary of Nepali Terms
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Thabang: From Remote Village to Revolutionary Myth
  12. 2. The Moral Economy of War: The Making of the Base Area
  13. 3. Becoming Maoist in a Time of Insurgency
  14. 4. The Marital Economy of War: Reconfiguring Kinship Loyalties and Conjugality
  15. 5. Remaking the Tribe: ‘A Farewell to Bad Traditions’
  16. 6. Subverting the ‘Sacred Cow’: When Beef Becomes Edible
  17. 7. When All Castes Become One: Transgressing Caste Boundaries during War
  18. 8. When Gods Return to Their Homeland in the Himalayas: Maoism, Religion, and Change
  19. Conclusion
  20. Appendices
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index