Problematised History in Manjushree Thapa’s Forget Kathmandu
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The present thesis is a study on Manjushree Thapa’s Forget Kathmanduin the
light of New Historicism as a methodological tool. The researcher has discovered that
Manjushree Thapa, a writer, has portrayed the tacit and hidden side of the Nepalese
history and has successfully redrawn the new boundaries of it from the king Prithvi
Narayan Shah’s unification period of Nepal to the parliament reinstatement in 2006.
Thapa courageously shows the bleaks, fissures, seamy sides and disjunctiveness of the
long marginalized aspects of the linear history of Nepal and interrogates the
authenticity of it and valorizes the margin.