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Item Adherence to Native Culture in R. K. Narayan's The Vendor of Sweets(Department of English, 2011) Subedi, Bhishma RajNot availableItem Changing international system: The role of echnology in the 21st century global power relations(Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, 2021) Poudel, JagritThe Contemporary international system is changing and the rise of Asia and the need for greater global governance are both apparent. Technological revolutions in the recent decades, the use of big data and artificial intelligence, in cooperation with automation has led to social, political and economic transformations globally. Emerging economies and technology is transforming the global power relations of the 21 st century. Technologies and mass communication medium such as twitter has distributed the power of influence to individuals. While automation strives to displace millions of workers who may not be able to retrain for the 21 st century workforce. In a society where big data and artificial intelligence dictate most aspects of daily life, the tech multinationals stand to benefit from the digital revolution. The research aimed to answer what kind of global transformations and changes in global power structures have occurred through technology as catalyst. Further, the research aimed to examine and identify different trends of the 21 st century that are transforming the contemporary international system. Key words: International System, Role of Technology, Global power relations, Nationalism, GlobalizationItem A Comparative Study of Representation of Nationalism and Ethnicity in Koirala's Sumnima and Pradhan's In the Battle of Kirtipur(Department of English, 2010) Thada Magar, PritimanThe present dissertation makes a comparative study of representation of nationalism and ethnicity in Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala'sSumnimaand Hridaya Chandra Singh Pradhan'sIn the Battle of Kirtipur.These literary texts present the relationship of conflict between nationalism and ethnicity. The reason of conflict is either to preserve the prehistoric identities or to possess power. In construction and representation of nationalism and ethnicity, Koirala gives emphasis on their religious aspects while Pradhan focuses on historical and political aspects.Item Construction of Nepali National Identity in Rajeshwor Devkota's Journey's End(Department of English, 2015) Siwakoti, Tirtha RajRajeshor Devkota's Journey's End sheds light on ethnic co-existence, religious tolerance, communal harmony, 'we' felling, optimism with the practice of democratic values such as freedom, justice, equality and humanism because of which autonomy, unity and identity of Dabali have been possible. It goes against exclusive ethnic nationalism demanding inclusive people-centric nationalism for the autonomy, unity and identity of heterogeneous pluralist society. By using Dabali as geographical and cultural tropes, Devkota reject exclusive ethnic nationalism in Nepal demanding need of people-centric nationalism to address the voices and demands of diverse Nepali people for unity, freedom, justice and identity. Devkota argues that for peace, prosperity, unity and identity in pluralist society, difference should be taken as beauty, not the problem thereby we can establish civilized human society erasing violence, conflict, bloodshed, enmity between and among people. This research, thus, acknowledges the significance of inclusive people-centric nationalism for the construction of national identity in the global multicultural world of the twenty-first century.Item Defining Ethnic Identity among the Limbus: An Analysis of Urban Setting in the Kathmandu District(Department of Sociology, 2009) Sambahangphe, LaxmiNot AvailableItem The Diary of a Young Girl: Psychosexual Revelation of Anne Frank(Department of English, 2009) Dhakal, BholaThe present research makes a study of Anne Frank, the writer of the diary, exploring her psychosexual build up. This exploration is conducted particularly on the basis of Freudian psychoanalysis. The nearly fifteen years old Anne Frank’s awareness of her sexuality makes her psychological growth normal. She is hopeful and optimistic towards her life, even though it is being shattered day by day. Her daily life has been disturbed by the daily news of mass murder of the Jews, yet her psychosexual growth towards a matured woman is not blocked. The Nazis are on the way to eliminate Jewish people from Europe, but they can not wipe out the happiness of Anne’s appearance, ambition of being a writer, faith on goodness, capacity for self- awareness and the journey towards a matured woman, because they get the foundation from her own psychosexuality.Item Dilution of Nationalism: A Study of Amitav Ghosh'sThe Shadow Lines(Department of English, 2009) Pachhain, KamalAmitav Ghosh'sThe Shadow Linesshows that the force of nationalism in the quest for freedom can be the source of violence; a violence that killed Tridib. Since Thamma is an ardent and rigid nationalist, she did many things for preserving nationality but the sorrowful matter is that her contribution towards war became good for nothing that strengthened the division and demarcation among the people. So, by using different characters, the writer questions the validity of geographical boundaries and celebrates the union of aliens pulled together by self-propelling empathy and attachment. Hence, the writer, focuses on global culture for the co-existence and further says that there is no solid space either geographically or culturally.Item Discourse of Delusion: Representation of Nationalism in Panchayat Era School Textbooks(2011-07) Paudyal, MahabirAvailable with full texts.Item Discourse of Delusion: Representation of Nationalism in Panchayat Era School Textbooks(Faculty of Arts in English, 2011) Paudyal, MahabirThis dissertation explores issue of Nepali nationalism through historical analysis critically examining its development all the way from Prithvinarayan Shah to Bhimsen Thapa toJunga Bahadur Rana to king Mahendra’s eras. The historical continuity is built up to set the background to critique Panchayat nationalism as it takes recourse to history in defining and creating its own version of nationalism reusing, recreating, galvanizing and—also misrepresenting—omitting some aspects of history while retaining and promoting less threatening contents and facts from it. In a way, Panchayat nationalism relies on repetition and narrativization of history. The study takes into account language, religion, cult of the crown, politics and education and state policies that guide these elements during the Panchayat era. The argument here is that Nepali nationalism from Prithvinarayan Shah’s unification drive to, by and large, the present day, is continuing to create the discourse of delusion by evoking ‘hate thy neighbor love thy nation’ attitude in the people in one way or the other. In the process, the discourse takes resort in evoking Hinduism, Nepali language and, during the Panchayat era, in institutionalizing the education policy through New Education System Plan of 1971, thus rendering the very idea of nationalism to be another form of state policies and state myths. During the Panchayat regime, in a drive to consolidate power, the state agencies projected grand narratives of nationalism. The study basically digs into school textbooks, besides touching on other Panchayat literature such as Panchayat constitution and sawais—which served as reliable means of disseminating nationalism across the nation—to analyze representation of nationalism of the Panchayat era.Item Exploration of Cross-Cultural Solidarity in Chetan Bhagat’s 2 States(Department of English, 2011) Tiwary, Tek BahadurThis research examines the cross-cultural solidarity between North and South Indian cultures in Chetan Bhagat’s 2 States. These two cultures of India have played an inevitable role for the sake of Indian nationality. The central characters of the novel, Krish and Ananya represent two diverse cultures. Though Krish and Ananya are one for cross-cultural harmony, but their parents are stubborn in their regional cultures. Anyway, with the passage of time, Krish and Ananya become successful to coax their parents for cross-cultural love marriage. The cross-cultural love marriage between Krish and Ananya deconstructs the deep-rooted attitudes of South and North Indian people regarding inter-state homogenous cultural marriage which was exercised in Indian for a long time. At last, these two cultures reconcile for nationality.Item Exploration of Ethnic Nationalism in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss(Faculty of English, 2018) Subedi, UdayaThe novel, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai explores how ethnicity is constituted through the discourse of nationalism. Nationalist politics as represented in The Inheritance of Loss becomes a major venue for accomplishing masculinity. In the novel, Gorkha ethnic identity becomes the driving force for the ethnic nationalism of Indian Nepalese fighting for Gorkhaland. Kiran Desai uses the socio- political turmoil to present vivid point pictures of the social, cultural and political conditions of India. To prove the thesis statement, data for this research were collected from textual reading and analytical library research. The primary and secondary data were reviewed focusing authentic, academic, and commercial references.Item Exploration of nationalist discourse through war in Mainak Dhar's line of control(department of English, 2023) KC, Mek RajThis research paper attempts to explore nationalist discourse through war in Line of Control by Mainak Dhar projecting the apocalyptic situation invited by Pakistan Army in collaboration with Mujahedeen through conflict, terror and war against India. It also highlights how the novel creates a nationalist discourse to represent the Indian Armed Forces, Pakistan Army and the Mujahideen; and how they are being represented through their different activities to hegemonize each other. Similarly, it also depicts how the nuclear weapon is the symbol of war and destruction. By taking theoretical insights on discourse, truth and power proposed by Foucault and Cultural Hegemony by Antonio Gramsci, this study argues how Pakistan joins hands together with the Mujahideen and tries to capture the POK by creating terror and leads towards possibility of nuclear threat and destruction in Indian continent. The research further claims evidence why Saudi Arabia provides fund to the fundamentalist group, the Mujahideen to spread Jihad against Indian continent. Key Words: - Representation, nationalism, nuclear warfare, fundamentalism, hegemony, discourse.Item Focalizer’s Prejudice towards Nepalese-Indian People in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss: A Study of Counter Focalization(Department of English, 2008) Gyawali, Shiba HariIn The Inheritance of Loss the very principle of the narrative introduces multiple characters as focalizers and also keeps a distance between limited heterodigetic narrator. As the multiple focalizer in the novel, the story is presented through the focalizer's perception or ideology and Nepalese-Indian people are focalized as they have been evaluated or understood by the focalizer. The focalization based or Jemubhai Patel, Sai, Biju, Lola and Noni's narration presents the focalized person likewise Gyan and Budhoo. The focalized characters are brought into light by the author but everything in the narrative are filtered through multiple focalizer's perception from whose perspective the Nepalese-Indian character and events of the story are focalized, witnessed or perceived. The narrator narrates his/her thoughts through the consciousness of the multiple focalizer without his/her interventation. Desai’s narrative technique is a type where the mind of the narrator is taken as a stage. She seeks to render more coherent and reasonable series of dramatic situations that are intended not as realistic images of society but as devices for exploring and analyzing the minds of her character. Each narrative stance fits into the other as different blocks that lay greater emphasis on compactness and unity of effect in a work of art than in characterization.Item Longing for Indian Sensibility in Raja Rao's Kanthapura(Department of English, 2007) Aryal, Narayan PrasadThis research makes an intensive study of Raja Rao'sKanthapura. Set in Colonial India and written as a diasporic immigrant writer, Raja Rao faces a peculiar problem of creating an Indian consciousness. In the Novel,we find the religious reforms and social upliftment. The heroic struggle and self-sacrifice of the protagonist to eradicate social evils prevailing in Indian society is a persisting demand for "home rule" of a diasporic writer, like Rao. Moorthy, the protagonist in the novel, is a Gandhian man who preaches brotherhood, equality and abolition of untouchability for the glorious India. Through him Raj Rao expresses his deep concerns and desperate longing for his native land and culture. The persisting demand for a home rule that functions as a thematic component in the text is the manifestation of a diasporic writer's desire to subvert the hegemonic colonial rule.Item Loss of Faith in Nationalism in Taslima Nasrin's Lajja(Department of English, 2007) Bhattarai, Ghan ShyamIn the novel,Lajja,by Taslima Nasrin, Sudhamoy, the main character, has deep faith in nationalism. He loves his country so much that he never thinks of leaving his country (Bangladesh) despite very adverse environment in contrast to other Hindu neighbors. But the existing religious fundamentalism reaches such an extreme that his faith is dismantled. So, at last, he decides to leave his country with ineffable pain in hisheart. But he himself is also accountable in making his belief a terrible failure. He should not have been too nationalistic as it was quite contrary to the undefeatable reality outside but he had a way to save his faith. It is by shifting to India as hisfriends suggest. But, he does not do so till his daughter becomes a victim of Muslim fundamentalism. This shatters his belief. He should have thought that he could save his love and faith in nationalism even by living out of the geographical boundary of his country. So, his own sense of nationalism has to be blamed as it is extreme, idealistic and absurd as well. Thus, the existing communalism collides with his nationalism and this incompatibility results in complete loss in faith. This loss in faith becomes intolerably painful to him. The ideal he professes is so high that the ultimate erosion in that belief is absolutely devastating--a fall that mentally shatters him to pieces!Item Marginalization of Ethnic Community in The Inheritance of Loss(Department of English, 2009) Paneru, NarayanThe present research work analyses theissue of marginalization of ethnic communityin Kiran Desai’sThe Inheritance of Loss. People of Nepali speaking community have been residing in India since time immemorial. Thoughscattered all over India,they arereferred as Gorkhasandhave been treatedas second class citizens in their own country by mainstream Indian discourse.Theyare bracketedasan ethnic community and denied their fundamental rights and privileges. Thisthesisexplores how Desai toeing the dominant political discourse, represents the Nepali ethnic people as inferior, terrorist,like,illiterate and uncivilized, thus marginalizing them as the ‘other’in post colonial IndiaItem Nationalism in Palpa’s Bhagwati Jatra(Department of English, 2015) Chhetri, LaxmiThis research is about Palpa’s Bhagwati Jatra, which is performed in every Bhadra Krishna Nawami in Tansen municipality, Palpa. It analyzes nationalism in Bhagwati Jatra through the theoretical framework, propounded by Benedict Anderson, Ernest Renan and Anthony D. Smith but it also collects the idea of other critics, who have written about nationalism. It has got religious, historical and national significance. It draws on the pre-existing history of people and an attempt to fashion this history into a common identity and shared history. Main invocation of Bhagwati Jatra is solidarity but beside this it also speaks on behalf of marginalized and indigenous people. By uniting all people, it evokes for the sake of nation and expresses desire to see unification of all races, castes, culture and so on in the framework nationalism.Item Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore's Poems(Department of English, 2022) Nepali, KamalaThis study aims to explore Tagore on nationalism through his few selected poems. It shows how the national consciousness arises among Indian people and how they face the consequences of blind nationalism. It explores the identity crisis of Indian people during colonial period in India. It has focused for Indian freedom from British Empire. It has analyzed how the idea of nation and blind nationalism become a threat to mankind. It supports healthy nationalism which prioritizes the welfare and unity of mankind. It focuses on the idea that nationalism should not be limited only in geography. It emphasizes on the social issues like caste, religion, class, culture as the causes of social hierarchy which generate intolerance, irrationality, prejudice and hatred among the people. It has examined that to serve the mankind, we must liberate our mind from all kinds of national boundaries, dogmas and social taboos. It finds humanity as the precious gift of the world which widens the path of peaceful and harmonious living. It implies the message that nationalism should inspire equality, unity, harmony, peace and universal brotherhood to make the better world to live in. This study focuses on the need of today’s world to lead the world to the path of love, friendship, justice, honesty, equality, and the unity of mankind where the races of the world would live together in amity keeping their distinct characteristics but all attach to the steam of humanity by the bond of love and mutual respect. This study ends with the conclusion that, people of different races with different types of customs, religion, social values should live together and tie up with Eastern concept of nationalism by rejecting the dividing concept of Western nationalism to create peaceful and harmonious world.Item Nationalist Consciousness in Doris Lessing's African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe(Department of English, 2010) Adhikari, Look RajDoris Lessing's African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe aptly recounts the story of writer’s visits to Zimbabwe in different times. While revisiting her homeland Lessing explores her childhood memories in an isolated farm and the bush, her parents and brother, African traditions and white customs which represent her nationalist consciousness. But even after the independence, she feels herself to be isolated from her best self because she was neglected and treated as ‘other’ by the common blacks. She was exiled for 25 years because of her opposition to the white minority government. Being a white she opposed the white rule and protest for equality but even after the independence she is not taken as a Zimbabwean. But her passion and love for her homeland is not decreased anymore. She tried to unite blacks and whites to build new Zimbabwe. For Lessing, to make nationalism stronger both blacks and white should join the hands together which means racial discrimination should be eliminated.Item Nationalist Ethos in Anita Desai’s Bye-Bye Blackbird(Department of English, 2011) Giri, BasudevThis thesis depicts the protagonist, Morrie’s assertion of the self at the end of his life. Morrie suffers from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) at his seventies. He is supposed to suffer from aging and ALS very brutally but their expectation remains false. In proving their assertion false, Morrie shapes himself distinct from the previous position. Besides, he also teachers his student Mitch to follow the path he is adopting. Consequently, he comes to meet his death serenely and gives a message that remaining years of life are sufficient to make a new self to anyone here in the world.