David Gellner is Lecturer in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford. He is the author of Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest (1992) and The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes (2001), and the co-author (with Sarah LeVine) of Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal (2005).

• List of TablesList of Plates and MapsPrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: Transformations of the Nepalese StateDavid N. GellnerSECTION I: THE STATE, DEVELOPMENT, AND LOCAL POLITICSChapter 1. A Heterotopia of Resistance: Health, Community Forestry, and Challenges to State Centralization in NepalIan Harper and Christopher TarnowskiChapter 2. Resisting the Environmentalist StateBen CampbellChapter 3. The Politics of Difference and the Reach of Modernity: Reflections on the State and Civil Society in Central NepalWilliam F. FisherChapter 4. Nepali Politics: People-Parties InterfaceKrishna HachhethuPART II: THE STATE AND ETHNIC ACTIVISMChapter 5. How Representative is the Nepali State?Karl-Heinz KrämerChapter 6. An ‘Indigenous Minority’ in a Border Area: Tharu Ethnic Associations, NGOs, and the Nepalese StateGisèle KrauskopffChapter 7. The History of the Messianic and Rebel King Lakhan Thapa: Utopia and Ideology among the MagarsMarie Lecomte-TilouinePART III: THE STATE AND MAOIST INSURGENCYChapter 8. Democracy and Dissent in Nepal: An Overview with Some Perceptions from DhorpatanColin MillardChapter 9. Guns, Kinship, and Fear: Maoists among the Tamu-mai (Gurungs)Judith PettigrewChapter 10. The Kham Magar Country: Between Ethnic Claims and MaoismAnne de SalesPerson IndexGeneral Index

"All of the chapters are valuable and insightful and several have genuinely new things to say…the book is an extremely important and valuable contribution to the literature on Nepal."  ·  JRAI

David Gellner is Lecturer in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford. He is the author of Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest (1992) and The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes (2001), and the co-author (with Sarah LeVine) of Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal (2005).

• List of TablesList of Plates and MapsPrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: Transformations of the Nepalese StateDavid N. GellnerSECTION I: THE STATE, DEVELOPMENT, AND LOCAL POLITICSChapter 1. A Heterotopia of Resistance: Health, Community Forestry, and Challenges to State Centralization in NepalIan Harper and Christopher TarnowskiChapter 2. Resisting the Environmentalist StateBen CampbellChapter 3. The Politics of Difference and the Reach of Modernity: Reflections on the State and Civil Society in Central NepalWilliam F. FisherChapter 4. Nepali Politics: People-Parties InterfaceKrishna HachhethuPART II: THE STATE AND ETHNIC ACTIVISMChapter 5. How Representative is the Nepali State?Karl-Heinz KrämerChapter 6. An ‘Indigenous Minority’ in a Border Area: Tharu Ethnic Associations, NGOs, and the Nepalese StateGisèle KrauskopffChapter 7. The History of the Messianic and Rebel King Lakhan Thapa: Utopia and Ideology among the MagarsMarie Lecomte-TilouinePART III: THE STATE AND MAOIST INSURGENCYChapter 8. Democracy and Dissent in Nepal: An Overview with Some Perceptions from DhorpatanColin MillardChapter 9. Guns, Kinship, and Fear: Maoists among the Tamu-mai (Gurungs)Judith PettigrewChapter 10. The Kham Magar Country: Between Ethnic Claims and MaoismAnne de SalesPerson IndexGeneral Index

"All of the chapters are valuable and insightful and several have genuinely new things to say…the book is an extremely important and valuable contribution to the literature on Nepal."  ·  JRAI

David Gellner is Lecturer in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford. He is the author of Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest (1992) and The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes (2001), and the co-author (with Sarah LeVine) of Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal (2005).

• List of TablesList of Plates and MapsPrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: Transformations of the Nepalese StateDavid N. GellnerSECTION I: THE STATE, DEVELOPMENT, AND LOCAL POLITICSChapter 1. A Heterotopia of Resistance: Health, Community Forestry, and Challenges to State Centralization in NepalIan Harper and Christopher TarnowskiChapter 2. Resisting the Environmentalist StateBen CampbellChapter 3. The Politics of Difference and the Reach of Modernity: Reflections on the State and Civil Society in Central NepalWilliam F. FisherChapter 4. Nepali Politics: People-Parties InterfaceKrishna HachhethuPART II: THE STATE AND ETHNIC ACTIVISMChapter 5. How Representative is the Nepali State?Karl-Heinz KrämerChapter 6. An ‘Indigenous Minority’ in a Border Area: Tharu Ethnic Associations, NGOs, and the Nepalese StateGisèle KrauskopffChapter 7. The History of the Messianic and Rebel King Lakhan Thapa: Utopia and Ideology among the MagarsMarie Lecomte-TilouinePART III: THE STATE AND MAOIST INSURGENCYChapter 8. Democracy and Dissent in Nepal: An Overview with Some Perceptions from DhorpatanColin MillardChapter 9. Guns, Kinship, and Fear: Maoists among the Tamu-mai (Gurungs)Judith PettigrewChapter 10. The Kham Magar Country: Between Ethnic Claims and MaoismAnne de SalesPerson IndexGeneral Index

"All of the chapters are valuable and insightful and several have genuinely new things to say…the book is an extremely important and valuable contribution to the literature on Nepal."  ·  JRAI