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Nine essays based on fieldwork during 1974 and 1975 analyse the economic and social conditions in the towns and countryside of one region of Nepal, with particular reference to peasants, workers, and the petty bourgeoisie. The authors use an integrated social science in which the divisions between the disciplines of anthropology, history, sociology and economics are set aside in favour of a consideration of the political economy of Nepal in a historical ...
The Struggle for Basic Needs in Nepal is a product of intensive field work in West Central Nepal (now Western Nepal) over a period of four years in the mid to late 1970s. It focusses on the lives of the seventy poorest rural households identified in an earlier survey of over six hundred (discussed in ‘Nepal in Crisis’ by the same authors). The households were re-visited and interviewed again, using a more participatory and interactive approach than in the ...