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Nepal: Socio-economic change and rural migration
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March 29, 2024
It is interesting how ..
throughout Chapter 4, there is such a distinction between the elites yield versus the peasantry. This narrative is built up between extensive analysis’ of forced labour, cycles of debt, and tenure-caste systems. However, the idea of the evil vs. innocent starts to break down (when the timeline enters the 1964 land reform) in that “landlords and tenants did not constitute monolithic groups”. ‘Superior tenants’ would side with rural poor to oppose feudalism landlordship but also allied with landlords to oppose land reform in favour of the rural poor. [Which is very interesting] The comfortable interpretation of the good vs. bad trope helped me understand complex historical processes in terms of making meaning in my mind (for a research project) but does not reflect the reality of the diversity of human experiences and relationships. I am glad that Ghimire captured this nuance since this is the first time that I’ve come across this note on landlord-tenant relations in Nepal. Also this book was really well structured.
throughout Chapter 4, there is such a distinction between the elites yield versus the peasantry. This narrative is built up between extensive analysis’ of forced labour, cycles of debt, and tenure-caste systems. However, the idea of the evil vs. innocent starts to break down (when the timeline enters the 1964 land reform) in that “landlords and tenants did not constitute monolithic groups”. ‘Superior tenants’ would side with rural poor to oppose feudalism landlordship but also allied with landlords to oppose land reform in favour of the rural poor. [Which is very interesting] The comfortable interpretation of the good vs. bad trope helped me understand complex historical processes in terms of making meaning in my mind (for a research project) but does not reflect the reality of the diversity of human experiences and relationships. I am glad that Ghimire captured this nuance since this is the first time that I’ve come across this note on landlord-tenant relations in Nepal. Also this book was really well structured.
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