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A comparative study on income and consumption structure of Phulasi VDC of Ramechhap district
(2014) Khadka, Madhab; Rudra Prasad Gautam
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A critique of the american dream in gabriele muccino's film, the pursuit of happyness
(2011) G. C., Saroj; Anirudra Thapa
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A festival tourism product Trishul Jatra and its present status
(2024) Subedi, Karuna; Pashupati Nyaupane
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A study of ethno-religious conflict in Sunsari district of Nepal
(2024) Rawat, Nar Bahadur; Ramesh Raj Kunwar
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A study of symbols in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons
(2011) Rai, Arun; Rebati Neupane
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A study of Trans-Border Trade in Parsa district of Nepal
(2024) Neupane, Guna Raj; A study of Trans-Border Trade in Parsa district of Nepal
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A study on Remittance income in Phoksing VDC of Gulmi district
(2013) Sapkota, Pashupati; Sohan Kumar Karna
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A study on the commonalities in subaltern silences and resistance
(2011) Prasai, Tirtha Prasad; Taralal Shrestha
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Abolitionist voices in the history of Mary Prince
(Department of English, 2016) Bhusal, Kamal
The present thesis entitled "Abolitionist Voices in The History of Mary Prince" exposes the pathetic condition of blacks under the system of slavery and their call for emancipation. In the colonized land by creating the hierarchical relation between white and black on the basis of race and color white exploited, discriminated and dehumanized to the black. Presenting themselves as master and black as their slave white used to suffocate the life of black in Caribbean society. Out of this white's suppression upon blacks, there emerged the idea of Abolition. Chiefly this idea of abolition shares the concept of emancipation and talks about equality, justice, freedom, liberation and other basic human needs of black African slave by blurring the demarcation of slavery. Prince by her narrative The History of Mary Prince raises the voices of abolition. Her narrative is marked by acts of resistance, moments in which she shocks her owners by talking back or rebuking them. In one instance, she offends Mrs. Wood with a reprimand for her verbal abuse and her physical neglect. She actively seeks offers from potential new owners to escape current ones, she marries against the wishes of Mr. and Mrs. Wood, she refuses to work when too ill to do so, and she eventually leaves the Wood family in England. This spirit of resistance upon this brutality of slavery in Prince is guided by the mentality of abolition.
Absence of dalit women's agency in Rajan Mukarung’s Damini Bhir
(Department of English, 2021) B.K., Gyanu
This research paper aims to examine the absence of Dalitfemale characters' agency in RajanMukarung’sDaminiBhir. The investigation of the absence of agency of Dalit female characters is important in order to understand the clear difference between the socio-cultural and economic status of women in general and Dalit women in the text.Fundamentally, the novel depicts the circumstances, psychology and practices of Nepali society during the ten years long Maoist insurgency in Nepal.The paper mainly analyses the social status, living condition, roles, and attitude that the author has assigned to the characters to understand the effect of lack of agency of Dalit female characters.Due to the lack of agency, Dalit women are unable to express their opinion and feelings.They are unable to act against the injustice they encounter.However, the ten years long maoist insurgency contributedto the empowerment of Dalit women to some extent. Also, it played a significant role inreducing untouchability to a very little extent.In comparison to non-Dalit women, Dalit women are doubly marginalized:on the basis of their caste and patriarchy.
Absence of peace in Toni Morrison’s Sula
(Faculty of English, 2011) Khanal, Shila
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Absolute irony and despairing vision in Thomas Mann's death in venice and T.S. Eliot's The waste land
(Department of English, 2018) Tyataju, Shree Prasad
This dissertation attempts to apply Alan Wilde’s concept of absolute irony to two quintessential modernist texts – Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. In Horizons of Assent, Wilde discusses about crisis in modernist aesthetics. According to him, this is the crisis of unresolved irony that modernist texts use as a central trope or consciousness. He names such a modernist use of irony as absolute irony. When applied to Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, it becomes clear that Mann ironizes the tendency to be sexually immoral and yet the irony does not condemn it so that ambivalence remains even in the ending of the novella. For Eliot, the modernist landscape without morality and faith – which he ironizes – remains a waste land till the end because the rain never falls. The paradox of death-in-life, which the use of absolute irony gives rise to, in The Waste Land remains unresolved. So, the dissertation concludes that Alan Wilde’s theory of absolute irony applies quite well to Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and that it comes out as a defining characteristic of modernist aesthetics.
Abstinence from meat and mate for plant life: A resistance to Patriarchy in Han Kang’s the vegetarian
(Faculty of english, 2020) BK, Avishek
The aim of this study is to explore women domination and radical protest in Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian. The author empowers the central character Yeong- hye to resist patriarchy. Yeong-hye has been under violence and has lived being suppressed with repressed feelings throughout her childhood and married life for five years. Not only to Yeong-hye, but also to her sister In-hye the author has given a strong role to resist patriarchy and support her sister. Both the sisters leave their husbands and live their life independently. The argument of this thesis is that the women can sacrifice their lives for resisting and to get rid of patriarchy. The protagonist finds that meat and mate are the means of female exploitation, so she abstains from them to revolt against patriarchal domination and later she stops eating any kind of food as she regards a plant to herself. Living plant life is to neutralize gender discrimination and to show equality between sexes. Throughout this work, radical feminism is applied as a theoretical tool to study the text. vi
Abstractionism in Kancha Kumar Karmacharya's paintings: presentation of visual rhythm and music
(Department of English, 2014) Chalise, Yuba Raj
This research work explores the issue of abstractionism in the selected paintings of Kanchha Kumar Karmacharya and proves that each painting carry rhythm and music in abstract form. These rhythm and music are associated with nature, human predicament and meditation. The research work has employed abstractionism as a tool to analyze his paintings. The spontaneous and stream-like application of colors, the sketches of pencil and brush and the merger of the forms of figure with the formless patches, though not realistic, create the complex form of the images thereby enabling the painter to show different melody. This research work contributes significantly in the terrain of critical concern and academia as a base for the further exploration of the issue by bringing in to light the politics of the painter in employing Abstractionism in his painting.
Absurd heroes as inspiration for life: revisiting becket‟s Vladimir and Marquez‟s colonel as absurd heroes
(Department of English, 2018) Puri, Sarita
The present thesis with the title “Absurd Heroes as Inspiration for Life: Revisiting Becket‟s Vladimir and Marquez‟s Colonel as Absurd Heroes,” is an attempt to explore the meaning of absurd heroes and their inspiration for life. The study found its origin with the problem how Vladimir and Colonel present themselves as absurd heroes and they act to inspire life. One the basis of this problem, the hypothesis formulated was Vladimir and Colonel are the absurd heroes because they do not surrender to suicide or leap of faith in spite of acknowledging meaninglessness of life and universe, and they go on living defying other options and hope enjoying life in the present situation. The study has come to the conclusion that these characters have given the readers the message that life finds its meaning through struggle not through hope. Vladimir and his friend Estragon wait for Mr. Godot to come for their salvation and the Colonel waits for his pension to arrive, rooster to win the fight and his supposedly dead son to come back to him. But none of these hopes become fruitful however they go on waiting thinking that their wait will bring some meaning to life. In this sense they are absurd heroes and their determination to continue life in spite of absurd situation presents inspiration for life. Martin Esslin‟s „The theatre of absurd‟ and Albert Camus‟s concept of „the absurd‟ hero have been used as the theoretical framework for analysis.
Abuse of Women’s Human Right in Iran: Questioning the Justification of Liberation Narrative in Azar Nafisi’s Memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran
(Central Department of English, 2013) Paudel, Prakash
In the aftermath of the 9/11, increased U.S. focus on Iran as a part of the military action dubbed as axis of evil has been justified by some humanitarian acts of defending women’s human rights and liberating them who are living oppressed under Islamic or authoritarian regime. In this context, Nafisi teaches Western literature to let her seven students know about the universality of human rights in general and women’s right in particular. Nafisi’s claim of advocating for women’s right by giving voice to her students is not valid since she has misrepresented them as the most victims in the Islamic regime in Iran who need teaching of Western literature to talk about democracy, freedom and women’s right. So, Nafisi like a typical feminist orientalist that purports to defend freedom, democracy and women’s right but she re-affirms that such values are originated from and accessed through western cultural sources thus is steeped in classic Orientalist stereotypes bolstering the rationale of Western intervention to rescue Muslim women from the repression of Islamic regime.
Access And Barriers On Maternal Health Of Magar Women
(Department of Sociology, 2019-07) Rana, Shyam Bahadur
The topic on"Access and Barrier of Maternal Health of Magar Woman" at Macchegaon in Kathmandu district is the study area for Magar woman where 85samples were chosen by applying purposive sampling. The main objective of this study is to describe basic knowledge of pregnant women and mother about ante-natal,natal and postnatal checkup and to find out main social factors of increment maternal health problems.The research in primary and secondary data in qualitative and quantitative based has forwarded to address the pregnant woman during, pre and post period. While collecting data in the site through questionnaire, the access in health center for Magar woman is available but as an adequate pregnant woman required for healthy pregnant is obstructed with different social and cultural activities. In this regard the following finding. Marital status of the respondents, there were conjugal woman 68.8percent,widow/widower seem s 30.40percent and unmarried woman and separated woman 0.80percent.In this way the marital status appears in this site.Similarly educational status of the respondents, there woman69.6, literate 20.40 percent,secondary and above level 5.60%) and primary level 4.40percent respectively.Education plays the vital role to build up overall development of the Magar woman.Literacy rate was lower than national level in the study area.Likewise, occupational status of the respondents, it shows that involved in service are 15, in business13, in daily wages22and agriculture10,and in household25 percent are engaged as field survey in Machhegaon which is presented in table. In concern to access of toilet facility,the respondents (100%)have toilet facility at their homes.Similarly, access of water more than one third of respondents 46(54.11%) drink pipe water, and respondents 38(44.70%) drink public well water source. Generally, public well are open, defecate near the well and not clean properly which is caused to make water pollution. Village people become ill because of drinking polluted water. Pipe water is more safer and clean than other sources.Likewise, ownership of house of the of Magar woman, majority of the Magarwoman55(64.70%) have their own home, and 30(35.30%)woman do not have female woman have household in their names.Similarly,ownership of the land,55(64.70%)respondents have land in their names and only30(35.30%)do not have. Regarding to involvement at the organization,65(74.70%) involved in organization and majority20(25.30%)of woman not. In the same way,health checkup during pregnancy, there were 66(77.64%)Magar woman visited hospitals during one year before the survey. It was found that of the 85 respondents woman visited hospital during one year. There were 19(22.35%)woman did not go health checkup during 12months before the survey. Similarly, status of nutrition to Magar women,many respondents take 33 (38.82), carbohydrate 25 (29.41) take protein, 16 (18.82) take vitamin and 11 (12.94) percent are taken by mineral during pregnancy for their balance diet. In this concern, they try to adapt new items but some foods are expensive too. In marriage age,20-24Magarwomanmarry in large number. In concern to this age group, most of the women marry for family.15-19 marry,19.82percent, 20-24group42.35 percent and minimal 30age group marry 10.58percent. in this way this woman group marry for adaption the life and culture.In Nepal about more than 95 percent diseases are caused by water. Pipe water is not available for every household and people living in that areas compelled to drink other sources which is risk to their lives.As found in the site there is access of health facilities rather than barrier for Magar woman. This site should be up lifted as other site of Nepal. Magar women's conscious about pregnancy but they still suffer from sufficiency of cultural problem.
Access and barriers on maternal health of Magar women
(Department of Sociology, 2019) Rana, Shyam Bahadur
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Access and Role of Women on Household Decision Making (A Case Study Of Biratnagar Sub Metropolitan City, Ward No- 11)
(Department of Rural Development, 2009) Khanal, Khima Devi
In general, this study attempts to analyze the women’s role in household decision-making among the people of Biratnagar Sub metropolitan city ward no11.The main objective of this study is to analyze the women’s role in their household decision-making and to assess the influencing factors of women’s role in decision-making. In the present study, descriptive research design has been applied. The qualitative and quantitative data were acquired. Qualitative as well as quantitative methods have been applied to collect primary data. The applied data collection techniques are Interview, Key Informant Interview and Focus Group Discussion. The total of 100 respondents were selected using random sampling method among the families at the study area. The research findings suggested that there are; 44 % males and 56% females where the majority of the respondents were Brahmin and Chhetri. With regard to family structure 53 households have joint family and 47 houses holds have nuclear family. Near about half of the respondents are illiterate (47%) out of which 29 percent are female. Mostly females are involved in land cultivation (52%), taking care for livestock (49%) and cooking activities (55%), firewood collection (64%) collection grass and fodder (81%). More women are involved in household chores (57%) than males (20%).Males have higher decision making power for purchasing households goods (74%). With compared to females (12%).Higher proportion of females (57%) is engaged in decision with regard to cropping pattern. Male’s decision has dominant roles in borrowing money (54.8%) and lending money (79.3%) compared to females (25.8% and 13.8% respectively).Decision for business investment has great influence of males (65.6%) compared to females(15.6). Some important recommendations are: educational level of women should be raised; proper management should be made to empower them and training institutes to provide employment opportunities. They should have access over land and property; awareness programs should be launched to eliminate the gender discrimination. Women should be brought into the main stream of the development, moreover in the nation building. There should be respected the voices of the women in the society as well as in state. Women should be participated in the restructuring Nepal through the social inclusion. Encouragement should be done to them to participate in the social activities. Opportunities should be given to them in decision-making process inside as well as outside their houses. Legal provision should be practiced in behavior; policies and programs related to the women’s participation, their empowerment should be implemented effectively. From the academic point of view, there is needed to carryout the further research in the same topic but in the other areas for policy implication in the field of enhances the women’s role in decision-making through household, community level and the national level as a whole. Thus, there is needed to undertake the research in the various fields of the women of the Sampled households such as socio-economic status of the women, women’s participation in politics, community development and resource mobilization, other influencing factors of the women’s role in decision-making, gender issue, women’s participation in decision-making in the ecological basis and in deferent level and fields, women’s participation in nation-building through social inclusion and so on.
Access to decision making process : A study of widow women in Dharmasthali VDC
(Department of Population Studies, 2010) Satyal, Kedar
The study “Access to Decision Making Process, A study of widow women” is based on primary data from Dharmasthali VDC of Kathmandu district during October, 2009. The major objective of this study is to find out current socio-economic and demographic characteristics of widow women in the study area and to examine the access to decision making process of widow women on the basis of socio-economic characteristics including health, education, land ownership, economic and political opportunities, physical and psychological violence in the study area. By using data from 114 households of 712 individuals of all 9 wards information were collected through field survey with the help of purposive random sampling. The data were entered into EPI Data software and required Dummy table were generated through SPSS programme. Through mean, frequency table, cross table objectives were analysed and hypothesis were tested by the use of bivariate (Correlation Coefficient) analysis. In the study area only 6.73 percent population is found as widow/widower. Out of total respondents majority of population is found as Janajaties (49.12 percent), 73.68 percent is found as illiterate, 41.23 percent is found as household head, 64.91 percent is found as Hindu religious people and 38.60 percent population is involved in agriculture, only 3.51 percent respondents are found in below the age of 35 years and 85.96 percent were married before the age of 20 years. Access to Median Decision Making Process is calculated as the median of all seven areas as going treatment of health problem, attending any types of education, cropping of land, working outside to feed family, expensing money from income, participating political activities and involving social organization. The median access to decision making process is found as 0.466(less than 50%). In correlation coefficient, widow women who faced health problems have higher access to decision making process then who didn’t face. Increasing the level of education, transformation the ownership of land in own/son’s/daughter’s name, widow women who work outside to feed family and who got any political post have higher access to decision making process(these are negatively correlated with access to median decision making process). Participation in social organization have negative relationship in access to decision making process (i.e., negatively correlated -0.1351). Widow women who faced any types of violence have higher access to decision making process. Similarly widow women who got counseling have lower access to decision making process.

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