Problematised History in Manjushree Thapa’s Forget Kathmandu

Abstract

The present thesis is a study on Manjushree Thapa’s Forget Kathmanduin the light of New Historicism as a methodological tool. The researcher has discovered that Manjushree Thapa, a writer, has portrayed the tacit and hidden side of the Nepalese history and has successfully redrawn the new boundaries of it from the king Prithvi Narayan Shah’s unification period of Nepal to the parliament reinstatement in 2006. Thapa courageously shows the bleaks, fissures, seamy sides and disjunctiveness of the long marginalized aspects of the linear history of Nepal and interrogates the authenticity of it and valorizes the margin.