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Item Changing livelihood strategies of Dalits: A study in Thalara Rural Municipality, Bajhang ( A case from far western, Nepal)(Department of Sociology, 2022) Thapa, Kiran BahadurThe topic entitled “Changing Livelihood strategies of Dalits: A Study in Thalara Rural Municipality Bajhang” This dissertation has focused on household strategy in Thalara there have been changes in the economic, social and political in Nepal. The market has been providing opportunities for choosing livelihood options. There primarily artisan related production has been replaced, where they engaged in the technical part of jobs business, tailors, modern agricultural and non-agricultural farms, self-employment in home and abroad. The situation inhabited to enriching them making capable to cope with forthcoming situations that needs special skills and knowledge to meet emerging needs for modern development efforts. Minority Dalit were hardly taken care of, in terms fulfillment of their basic needs and capacity building by training and education. Due to this, situation of Dalits are even worse, and found unrepressed in many of the social and economic walks of life. Personal inability to expose them on the one hand and low attention paid to their voice on the other, led further aggravation to the situation. Dalits were prohibited from attending schools and other forms of education that decreased caste based discrimination. High caste Hindus and other who have been influenced by it are strongly represented in government administration. The civil service plays a considerable role in the political life of the country. Many of these low caste people regard such a placement as their natural right. Nepalese political parties INGOs, NGOs bureaucrat’s practices have been strongly influenced by caste and class- wise thought. The high caste people are in a minority, and their value system is not prevalent value system among the majority of the people in Nepal. Without adopting the inclusive policy in bureaucracy, the attempt of the development may not success. Therefore, it is strongly suggested that to the concern authority to make an effective policy to increase the number of governmental sector bureaucrats from different ethnic minorities, through only overall development is possible in Nepal. Nepal’s further hope lies in its ethnic culture whose simplicity provides a greater flexibility propensity to development and change. It is a fact that Dalits are richest source of art, skill and culture of Nepalese society that contribute to civilization of society. Dalits are in the process of shifting from agriculture-based to non-agricultural livelihood option. The household assets of this community have greatly influenced the process of adoption of new strategy or modification and eradication of traditional occupation. The households with comparatively better access to the capital to pursue livelihood have been adopting the influence of urbanization in their areas more easily than the households who have less access to the assets. As the development of surrounding spaces, the people of particular space have to change their way of life to adopt with the changing environment by their livelihood strategies.