The Locus of Sovereign Authority in Nepal

Malagodi, Mara

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“…The authoritarianism in Sri Lanka has sought to consolidate itself around Sinhala nationalism, a majoritarian ideology that undermines Tamil identification with the state and its institutions. In contrast, the recognition of diversity within the constitution making process in Nepal, while currently stalled over the design of the federal arrangements in the country (whether it should be an ethnic federation or an administrative one), is designed to facilitate an inclusive democracy (Malagodi 2013). Nepal has been following the successful Indian experience of accommodation.…”

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A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia

Adeney¹

2015

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A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia

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2015

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“…State-promoted and fostered Nepali nationalism in the mid 20 th century further perpetuated this exclusionary practice. The 1962 Constitution of Nepal promulgated by king Mahendra promoted an official version of nationalism whose basic tenets were Hinduism, monarchy, and Nepali language (Malagodi, 2015;Onta, 1996). The king's autocratic Panchayat regime further promoted a Nepali identity based on one language, one costume, and one country drawing on the cultural tenets of the ruling upper-caste Hindus from the hills (Sijapati, 2013).…”

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What is not in a name? Toponymic ambivalence, identity, and symbolic resistance in the Nepali flatlands

Karki¹,

Wenner²

2020

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Nepal's Constitutional Foundations between Revolution and Cold War (1950–60)

Malagodi

2023

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The 1950s represent a foundational decade in Nepal's constitutional history. In the wake of decolonization in British India, the “year 7 revolution” (1950–51) grew out of the alliance between King Tribhuvan Shah and Nepal's democratic political parties created in India against the Rana autocratic regime in Kathmandu. Eventually the pro-democracy forces prevailed, and a crucial political transition began. Two constitutions were promulgated, the 1951 Interim Constitution and the 1959 Constitution. Both short lived and only partially implemented, these documents, however, laid the foundations of Nepal's constitutional edifice for years to come. Constitution building became a marker of sovereignty understood in terms of independence and an assertion of popular sovereignty. However, in the fraught Cold War context, the preoccupation with securing political stability by constitutional means that centered around the Shah monarchy prevailed, even at the expense of democracy. As such, the shift from a traditional notion of sovereignty from above to a modern concept of sovereignty from below remained incomplete. These aspirations, however, were not extinguished even by 30 years of royal autocracy under the Panchayat regime (1960–90) and lived on to this day to inform demands for constitutional reform, democratization, and inclusion. The present analysis is based on Nepali primary legal sources, archival material from the United Kingdom and United States National Archives, and the Ivor Jennings Private Papers.

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The Locus of Sovereign Authority in Nepal

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia

A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia

What is not in a name? Toponymic ambivalence, identity, and symbolic resistance in the Nepali flatlands

Nepal's Constitutional Foundations between Revolution and Cold War (1950–60)

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