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Item Alienation and Apology: A Postcolonial Study of Rushdie’s Fury(Department of English, 2009) Khatun, RehanaFurydeals with the problems of alienation in postcolonial context imposed by the hegemonic colonial discourse. A person from Eastern Hindu society,Malik Solanka, goes to the West where he gains material access but suffers from alienation because of the cultural displacement. As he moves from one place and culture to another place and culture, the problem of alienation gets intensified in his life and family. After the ruin of his family, he realizes the importance of family and he is apologetic towards his mistake.Item Attempt to CreateSelf in Naipaul'sMagic Seeds(Department of English, 2006) Pokhrel, TikaNaipaul'sMagic Seedsdepicts the postcolonial situations. They are problem of location, history, culture and identity. Willie is detached from history, language, and culture which are sources of identity. For his discovery, he goes to India and involves the guerrilla movement where his identity slips one after another. He can not create his history, culture and fix identity because he is dislocated from them. Returning to London, he also realizes that he is failure to discover himself throughout his life because he is homeless, jobless, hopeless, missionless and lack of self-decision power, technical education, family relationship and practical way of life.Item Body as Theatre in Bode Jatra(Central Department of English, 2010) Thapa, HukumWhile poking into the facadeof the performance of body, the present dissertation receives its critical insight through the seminal ideas of Kapila Vatsayan,Conquergood, Turner, Grotowski, Schechner andet.al. The present research worklocates body as the site for theatricality of the performance inBode Jatra, exclusively the performativity of the tongue- piercing as an expression of cosmogonicconsciousness. It incorporatesthe movement of the body both from micro and macro aspect whichconstitutesthetheatrical culmination.The body in Bode Jatraturns into the liminal space that transcends the corporeal world to create space into the world of spirits, and returns dawning with newness, thereby evoking the sense and sensibility of theatricality.Item Fluid identity in Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father(Department of English, 2016) Subedi, SamikshaNot AvailableItem Forms of Address in Sinjali (Khash) Dialect and English: AComparative Study(Department of English Education, 2011) Budha, Dilli Bahadurhis thesis entitled “The Forms of Address in Sinjali (Khash)Dialect andEnglish: A Comparative Study”makes a comparison of theaddress forms used in the Sinjali (Khash) dialect and English. The majorobjectives of the research is to identify how the native speakers of these two(dialect and language) make choice of the forms of address, the words usedto address somebody in speech, keeping in mind various factors like age,sex, relation, social setting, culture, etc. related to addresser and addressee.The study makes a comparison on the forms of address used forconsanguineal relations, affinal relations and social relations includingstrangers, friends, teachers and students, people holding political, judicialand ecclesiastical positions, professionals like; officer, doctor, nurse,engineer and other persons in the Sinjali (Khash) community. The data werecollected from 66 native speakers of eleven VDCs ofSinja valley in Jumladistrict using stratified random sampling procedure and snowball samplingprocedure. The sources of data for the forms of address in English are basedon the previous researches carried out in the Department of EnglishEducation andencyclopedia. The researcher has found out that the Sinjali(Khash) dialect is richer in the forms of address compared to English as itcontains the forms that are not found in English. The system of addressingpeople in Sinjali and English differ in most of the cases. Usually, kinshipterms have addressive use in Sinjali (Khash) dialect but the first names (FN)are more used in English. This thesis contains four chapters: thefirst chaptercontains generalbackground, review of the related literature, objectives of the study,significance of the study and definition of the specific terms. The secondchapterrelates to the methodology, which deals with the sources of data,sample and sampling procedure, research tools, process of data collectionand limitations of the study.Likewise, thethird chapter, which is the mainpart of the thesis, comprises analysis and interpretation of the data obtained.Finally, the fourth chapter deals with the findings of the study,recommendations and pedagogical implications of the study based on thefindings.Item Human Passion Vs. Culture in R.K. Narayan's NovelThe Vendor of Sweets(Central Department of English, 2010) Bhandari, SrijanaR.K. Narayan'sThe Vendor of Sweetsexplicitly portrays the clash between human passion and culture. There arises an irresolvable dispute between the father and son who adheres different beliefs. Mali, the son of Jagan, spoils his father's dream by abandoning the spiritual and moral Indian life. His utmost passion for western culture causes deep pain and suffering in Jagan's life. The imitation of individualistic, materialistic and solitary western life by son leaves Jagan in helpless plight. Mali is more sensitive towards his passion then following his father's orthodoxical and rigid Indian cultural ethos.Item Hybridity in Prajwal Parajuly’sThe Gurkha’sDaughter(Department of English, 2020) Shah, SurendraIn the short stories,The Gurkha’s Daughter(2012), Prajwal Parajulyreveals characters survival through cultural practices between Nepali and English convention as hybridity in a host country.Thecharacters of these stories immigrate to the host country with some purpose where they develop hybrid cultural space. Theyfacedifficulty in coping with the host culture and the country because of which they negotiate and adapt new language, behavior, religion, lifestyleandrelationship etc. In order to show the presence of hybrid cultural space, this study points outdifferent hybrid elements from thesestories.The critic Homi K. Bhabha has developed the term hybriditywhichrefersto new and unidentifiable cultural identity that has negotiation of meaning and representation. Hybriditycame outof adaptation and negotiation by immigrants in a host country fortheiracceptanceinthe host community fortheirsurvival. Keywords: Community,culture,immigrants,hybridity,negotiation,adaptation,survival,host countryItem Interplay of Tradition and Modernity: An Ironic Study of Forster's A Passage to India(Department of English, 2008) Bhandari, AshokEdward Morgan Forster's ironic observation of British and Indian ways of life in A Passage to India is notable for its use of multiple perspectives: Forster employs the shifting viewpoints to portray the English and Indian characters, writing his story across the lines of difference of race, religion, gender, and culture. Here he takes the relations between the English and the Indians and ironizes upon the possibility and limitations, the promises and the pitfalls, of human relationships, judging independently as a liberal humanist. Hence neither English nor Indians are spared: there is a kind of comic act mitigaing the tragic undertones in the novel. Forster's irony is directed at Indian tradition from the viewpoint of British modernity and also at England from the prospective of traditional India. Forster privileges Indian life and culture even as he stereotypes India and the Indians along with the British. He shows his ambivalent attitude towards British and Indian life and culture by simultaneously stereotyping and privileging the different aspects of their culture, traditions and customs.Item Refutation of Masculine Ideals in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford(Department of English, 2009) Rajaure, VikashThis researchbased on Elizabeth Gaskell’s novelCranfordis the scrutinizing analysis female world. One of the values the women ofCranfordpossess is being independent from men. Even though there is lack of males, the women do not seem to be interested in the men thatare available. A surplus of women in a society would lead to a deficit of men, which is opposite from the case in Cranford. When Captain Brown inhabits the town of Cranford, the women moan over the invasion of their territories by a man; the paradox undeniably illustrates their value of being independent from men. The women of Cranford have learned to live without men, and have begun to value being single. In fact, being a spinster is so common in Cranford that Miss Matty and other females decline to get married. Commitment to a man is so absurd that the women would rather live with their fears of thieves, burglars, and ghosts instead of living with men. Nonetheless, Cranford is Gaskell’s vision of continuity of Amazon culture which can alone, it seems in the novel, survive female identity.Item Socio-Economic Impact of Tourism at boudhanath Area, Kathmandu(Department of Rural Development, 2019) Kuikel, RishabTourism refers to the temporary, short-term movement of people to destinationoutside the places where they normally live and work, and their activities during thestay at these destinations. The objective of this study is to assess the employmentgeneration through tourism at Boudhanath area. The specific objectives are toexamine the tourism status in the study area and to analyze the socio-economicimpacts of tourism in Boudhanath area. This study is based on descriptive as well asexplorative research designs. This study is based on primary as well as secondarysources of data. The secondary data was collected from tourism related institutions.45 samples have been selected from different tourism related employers andorganizations through purposive sampling method. The growth of tourism in Boudhanath area can be witnessed by increasing numbers oftourist arrivals and gaining of its popularity among outsiders for its typical culturalheritage. Boudhanath Stupa (or BodnathStupa) is the largest stupa in Nepal and theholiest Tibetan Buddhist temple, outside the Tibet. It is the center of Tibetan cultureinKathmanduand rich in Buddhist symbolism. Tourism sector is not only a majorsource of earning foreign currency but its contribution to create employmentopportunities is also important. For this, Nepal disposes excellent circumstances forthe development of active international tourism, including holiday pleasure, trekking,mountaineering, rafting, religion, official, sport tourism and so on. Income frominternational tourism plays a vital role in the national economy of the country. According to the local people, all the people of Boudhanath area engaged in tourism.Generally local people of Boudhanath area were engaged in tourism business likehotel, café, souvenir shop, curio shop etc. They do these businesses for selfemployment with the purpose of earning money. This study has been focused onimpacts of tourism in Boudhanath area. Although this area is rich in its culturalheritage, there is lack of parking facility, water supply and repairing and maintenanceof historical monuments, well-managed public toilets, dust bins, restaurants andlodges with modern facilities, recreational facilities etc. These are essential for thetourist and tourism businessItem Use and effects of alcohol in tharu community(Deparment of Health Educaion, 2016) Chaudhary, Dip NarayanThis is a field based study which is conducted to find out use and effects ofalcohol in Tharu Community of Dumraha Namuna VDC of Sunsari District. It wascarried out toexamine the status of alcoholpractioners in the society. It studied therelationship between the literacy, practice and economic status, practice and socialstatus as well as the alcoholrelated health problems upon the practioners. The study is based on primary as well as secondary sources of data. The total200 respondentswere taken as sample size. Interview schedule and observation formswere applied as tools for collection of primary information. In terms of education, the community seems backward. Those who wereliterate. Among the whole population 37.5% were literate. Majority of the respondents had sufficient income. Similarly the mainoccupation of respondents were agriculture. In Tharu community, they had early marriage. Most of young people marriedbelow 18 years. Male respondents less than female were married below 19 years.Most of female respondents were found to have been married below 19 years. Most ofthe people got married below 31 years. A great majority of the respondents had started to drink alcohol between theage of (16-44) years. Less of the respondents had started at the age of below 15 years. In Tharu community people use alcohol (Raksi) since their childhood. MostTharu people make alcohol in their own home. Soall respondents confessed to drinkhome made alcohol. In present time majority of the respondents i.e drink alcoholmostly following culture. Some of respondents drink with their friends. Similarly therespondents drink alcohol by family pressure. 32 percent of respondents take oneglass (approx. 250ml), 32 percent of respondents drink one bottle (approx. 750ml) and36percent of respondents were not fixed to drink alcohol. The study has revealed to many socio-economic effects. The majority hadfamily quarrel, had low income had society quarrel, had negative with each other, theminor of respondents had violence and had accident. They did not agree as to the physical problem they had due to the use ofalcohol though most of respondents were suffering from heart burn, headache,epigastric pain, vomiting etc. The second cause respondents suffering from high bloodpressure and so also suffering from T.B. At the end of this study, it is concluded that alcohol use by Tharu communityis common in that study area. Various reasons are responsible for it. Among themilliteracy and their culture are the most important ones. It is requested to conductsimilar type of studies in other community with large sample size and differentmethodology.