Nepal Mandal

The text of this book was written cumulatively over the last decades of the 20th century, during which Nepal Mandal experienced a wrenching cultural change. A maoist guerrilla rebellion was the outward sign of this. The massacre of King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah and his family in the year 2001 and the coronation and subsequent dethronement of his brother Gyanendra were the constitutional corollary: The twenty-first century has witnessed the development of an unstable democracy in a country without significant financial means, or industrial potential, to support itself. The forced cultural development from medieval kingdom in the early 1960s to a young and unformed democracy has involved depreciation of the past and a preference for imported cultural license and IT marvels.