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Item Multicultural Ethos in Bisweshwar Prasad Koirala's Sumnima(Department of English, 2019) Rai, JharanaThis research paper examines multicultural ethos in BP Koirala’s Sumnima. This novel presents a conflicting worldview of Somdatta, a boy from Brahmin ascetic family and Sumnima, a girl from ethnic Kirat community. Somdatta acts according to his faith that views the quest for knowledge as the supreme form of life, which can be attained through purity of soul. On the other hand, Sumnima has a belief that life is meaningful only if the body is allowed to function in its natural course. In the beginning, the ascetic family enjoys a high respect and power in the society in relation to the people in the Kirat community because the later acted ‘lowly’ against the contemporary Hindu norms of the society. This thesis argues that the novelist deconstructs the existing Brahmin-Kirant hierarchy by trying to dismantle the fabricated gaps between the two communities and showing how their cultures, rituals, and social practices are simply the result of their upbringing and worldviews. The novelists maintains the multicultural ethos by making a liberal representation of Kirant community and showing how Sumnima and her father Bijuwa help Somdatta revive his bodily energy of procreation which the sacred rituals could not ensure. This thesis includes the theoretical discussions on scholars like James Trotman, Terrence Turner, Bhikhu Parekh and Mahendra Lawoti. Trotman specifically views that multiculturalism tries to restore a sense of wholeness “by closing gap” it means, poses two Brahmin and Kirant caste show in equal power/senario and “by raising consciousness about the past” means primordial phase was not conscious about multicultural ethos after continued change paradigm make an self-awareness, it takes to sign of consciousness in particular group.Item Multicultural Ethos: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry in Manjushree Thapa’s Tilled Earth(Department of English, 2011) Shrestha, RekhaManjushree Thapa’sTilled Earthexplicitly depicts multicultural ethos. It explores how the characters contact with multicultural people around the globe. Moreover, this research engages to analyze Thapa’sTilled Earthfrom contact zone, globalization, and multiculturalism how it comes across the multicultural ethos with the imaginative characters and imaginative stories. It exposes the present situation of the globalized cultures how people spend their life differ eachother. That is to say, Manjushree Thapa’s Tilled Earthvividly projects an inquiry into multicultural ethos in which the characters undergo several ways while searching proper opportunity and proper adjustment.Item River as Sutra or, the Binding Principle in A River Sutra(Department of English, 2010) Rijal, NirojIn A River Sutra, Gita Mehta applies the same idea as she used in her previous works, Karma Cola (1997) and Raj (1989), the various cultures, communities and traditions. Her concern in writing is always focused on racial harmony, unity, peace, and prosperity of the people of various ethnic, cultural groups. The novel has a setting on the bank of India’s holiest river-the Narmada, amid “the constant traffic of pilgrims, archaeologists, policemen, priests and traders.” Gita Mehta represents Narmada River as both the physical entity and the multicultural construct, which became supplementary and complementary to each other. The human relationship within a community and with the members of other communities is closely associated with Narmada River which functions as ‘Sutra or the Binding Principle’, the binding force to different communities. Thus, the mythical, multicultural and spiritual concepts that the diverse social communities create about the Narmada associate them, as the basic source of such construct is the same. Mehta’s major involvement is with human subsistence in modern times.