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Nepal is going through the most tumultuous period in its history. The writing of the new Constitution will only be a small step towards producing a stable country. While there is no disagreement over the issue of state restructuring itself, challenging spin-offs stemming from a failure to address questions of identity, ethnicity, language, religion, region and culture are emerging as clear fault lines of ‘New Nepal.’ Security sector governance, the structure of the political system and the relations between various organs of the state are yet to be determined, while law and order, supply of daily essentials, and immediate economic relief to the rural hinterlands is already testing the patience of the people. Political parties are once again resorting to the old addiction of forming and dismantling governments, knowing well that this will be disastrous the nascent democracy. A chaotic Nepal will also be a headache for both India and China. This book reflects the nature of the enormous challenges before Nepal and the exceptionally important discussion on how to resolve these problems and move ahead.
Language as a Potential Source of Conflict
Language as a Potential Source of Conflict
To minimize the odds of granting asymmetrical amount of resources to a single or a few federal region(s) while dumping other units totally at the mercy of the center, federalism (till recently) was also being proposed on linguistic lines in Nepal very much like how the Indian federal structure was organized after the country gained independence in 1947. Proponents of this scheme are of the view that ethnicity-based federal structure will gratuitously hold the entire nation at the benevolence of the Madhes Autonomous Region, which could lead to a severing of relations between the terai and other regions. If the entire terai is to be a single federal unit as has been ...
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