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Item Impact of Development and Social Change in Ethnicity A Case Study of Danuwar in Dudhauli VDC of Sindhuli District)(Department of Rural Development, 2006) Sharma, Santosh KumarIn this study, ward no 6 Daudhauli VDC was taken to be main study area. The total number of 30 out of 65 households are randomly selected for the study. During the data collection, both the primary and secondary data are taken.Observation, household survey, interview and checklist are applied as tools for data collection. Analysis and presentation of data were carried out after the classification of collected data according to their characters. The Danuwar people are more developed than their past generations but not same to the other caste/ethnic people at present time. Since they have a small amount of land, they use to take other’s land on lease by paying of crops or by a certain amount of cash. People have introduced modern agricultural system, which they could able to get more products with different varieties, Danuwar people have more priority on agricultural sector than other. It was out of imagining for the Danuwar in the past that they will be famous for the vegetable producer in one day. But we know that where there is will there is way, accordingly due to the hard labor, the recent Danuwar have converted their dream into true. These days, they were the most vegetable producer in Dudhauli are asespecially in potato, tomato and some green vegetables. Cooperative organizations have also played a vital role to uplift the life standard of Danuwar. Today, most of the people are member indifferent types of cooperative organizations such as dairy, credit and saving,agricultural cooperative etc. v Culturally, Danuwar have left some of the minor festivals, which have not much importance in their society. They were found to be aware on the minimize of expenses on less important things. But at present in the marriage ceremony, they have more expenses than in the past depending on their income and capacity. The main causes of celebrating the festivals were due to the Kuldebate. There are some opinions among Danuwar that, if they don’t celebrate the festivals, their Kuldebate will be angry and have to bearbad news. The emerging of nuclear family indicates that Danuwar have developed the sense of independently live with his own efforts. The people become aware on educating their children. They have understood the value and importance of education. In the past, since they had no education, other people used to dominate them. The status of women is found to be good in their community women are more clever and responsible for the household work as well as supporting their male. Politically, they were not interested, but take decision by themself. In the study area. Ward no 6 have ward member of Danuwar community.Since the population of Danuwar is dense in this ward, there is not possibility of elect the ward member from other community. This shows the unity of Danuwar. In totality, however the government program has not reach up to them, they have changing themselves according to their past experience and introduce modernization to make their life betterment.Item Migration Induced Social Change in an Urban Setting: A Study of Chhorepatan, Pokhara(Department of Sociology, 2015) Basnet, Krishna KumariNot availableItem Paths to Dalit Empowerment:Comparison of a "Maoist Affected" Village and a Neighboring Town in Sindhupalchok(Department of sociology, 2020) Bishokarma, Resham BahadurPaths to Dalit Empowerment: Comparison of a "Maoist Affected" Village and a Neighboring Town in Sindhupalchok Key terms: Multiple paths, social change, caste system, untouchability, Dalit empowerment, Inter caste relationships with focus on Dalits and Non-Dalits, Maoists,People’s war This research focuses the effectiveness of alternate paths to Dalit empowermentwithin a specific historical, structural and spatial context. The historical and structural context of this research is that of the Maoist "People's War" (1996-2006) and the spatial context is a village where the Maoist had a heavy presence and a town where their presence was less salient even as other potential agents of empowerment were relatively powerful. This research engages with the question of the relative of effectiveness of the two alternate modes of intervention as far as Dalit empowerment is concerned. Did the Dalits of Kubhinde, the Sindhupalchok village, where the Maoist presence was intense, find themselves more empowered than the Dalit of Chautara, the near by headquarters of the Sindhupalchok district, where the Maoists were less power fuleven as there were many other agents of potential empowerment were in presence there? Did the Maoist class struggle succeed in resolving the contradictions that gave rise to the caste system in general and "untouchability" in particular? Can political parties that seek to resolve Dalit-non-Dalit contradictions resolve caste contradictions immediately after they come to power and exclusively through political initiatives?Or is a longer-term and multi-dimensiona lmobilization and state action necessary to resolve such contradictions? Analysis of observation, in-depth interview and focus group data with a variety ofstakeholders show that Dalits have been empowered where ever a political party,regardless of its broader ideology, has been able to shape the nature of awareness among Dalits and has united them together. As an example, the public space in Chautara e.g. teashop, restaurant/bar, temple, school, wedding party, suffers from alower level of "un touchability" than Kubhinde-even though "untouchability" is in practice in private homes. Second, education, economic opportunities, political VI consciousness, urbanization,road facilities, communications, market access, effects of globalization, and access to local services are the key principal factors that have played a key role in Dalit empowerment and social changes in urban areas. Where such facilities are lacking, for example in the rural settings such as Kubhinde, the level of Dalit empowerment and the rate of social change is weaker. Third,"Untouchability" and other discrimination against Dalits remain more severe in thevicinity of Brahmin/Chhetri settlements in both public and private spheres. Patron-client relations such as those between Dalits on the one hand and the Tamang, Ghale,Magar on the other, "Untouchability" and other discriminations are less intense. To conclude, political consciousness led by the Maoists is insufficient to empower Dalits even as the adoption of multiple paths leads to a higher level of empowerment.Item Process and Causes of Social Change in Dalit Community of Shikhar 2, Doti, Far-western Nepal(Department of Sociology, 2023) Bogati, ShantiThis study entitled “Process and Causes of Social Change in Dalit Community of Shikhar 2, Doti, Far-western Nepal” aims to analyze the process of social change in Hindu community. It also, tries to find out the causes of social change in the community. Moreover, the study was about to assess the occupational shift among Dalit community of Shikhar 2, Doti, Far-western Nepal. Qualitative method was used to accomplished the study. Primary data were collected from the field work, where the researcher used Interview, and Case study as research tools. For the secondary data many related articles, books, reports, thesis and dissertations were reviewed. The collected data were processed, analyzed and described in accordance with the standards of data analysis and interpreted based on the research design. Following the analysis and interpretation of the data, the results were documented and reported in descriptive method. The findings of the study revealed that there were four Varnas in Hindu caste system which were ranked hierarchal order continuously; Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra. In the study area, there were also, classes inside Shudra which were; (1) Luhar/Kami/BK (Bishwokarma), Sunar/Sop, Tamrakar, Tumata, Parki and Oad, (2) Bhul, (3) Dholi/Damai/Nagari/Nepali, and (4) Bhand/Das. Dalit were also known as ‘Untouchable’, ‘Polluted’, ‘Achhut’, ‘Tallo Jat’ and ‘Dum’. They used to do occupations related to blacksmith, leather, entertainment, pottery etc. which were very hard labored work. Traditional occupations were dependent on local resources and based on arts and culture. They used to make products as per the demand of local community and local market. Moreover, they went for work in non-Dalit’s home and got crops, grains, vegetables, food and some money as a ‘Khalo’ instead of the work. The study found that it was very difficult to survive by the Khalo. So, they were changing their traditional occupations in modern way or new job or business. Some of the old people still doing the traditional occupations because of the lack of skills, knowledge and money. More than 95 percent of young generation were ignoring traditional occupations and attracting to modern occupations. The research disclosed that those people who were; educated, good job, nice income and attractive life standard felt less discrimination than others. Furthermore, Education, awareness, profession, NGOs, INGOs, and government has great roles to eradicate caste-based discrimination and upliftment the life standard of the community.Item Social and Cultural Change in Tharu community (A study of Ratnangar-18, Bachhauli, Chitwan)(Department of Sociology, 2016) Mahato, RamjeeNot availableItem Socio-Cultural Changes through Tourism in Bhaktapur Durbar Square Areas(Central Department of Sociology, 2016) Prajapati, BasantiItem Socio-cultural situation & change in Balami community (A sociological study on Balami women of Kagatigaon, Nuwakot)(Department of Sociology, 2019) Bhatta, Keshari PrasadNot available