Articles

• Nepali women are rewriting our story. Are we ready to listen? When women tell their own stories, they do more than describe the world; they reshape it, by Patricia Fernandez-Pacheco (kp12/04/2026)

• How Nepal silences women in public life : The harassment of women for public expression in Nepal is not a reaction to any single political wave. It is a pattern, and it has a history, by Aarya Chand and Rishika Dhakal (kp 10/04/2026)

• Ruling party apologises to Dalits for historical injustice. But communities demand real change :The government had promised to deliver a formal apology within 15 days of assuming office, alongside reform programmes for social justice, by Shiva Puri and Prakriti Dahal (kp 07/04/2026)

• Costly cultural weddings drive some couples to tie the knot in court, by Aarya Chand and Rishika Dhakal (kp 06/04/2026)

• This transgender candidate found home and hope in Dharan, by Elina Rai (kp 02/04/2026)

• Madhesh’s youth in the grip of a growing drug network : Three “S” factors—sulabhata (availability), sangat (peer influence), and siko (imitation)—are driving Madhesh’s youth toward drug addiction, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep 21/03/2026)

• Dalits Still Endure Violence And Exclusion, by Sushil Darnal (rn 20/03/2026)

• Women leaders deserve more than a maternal metaphor : Reducing femininity to motherhood limits women’s political roles and the imagination of leadership, by Smriti RDN Neupane (kp 20/03/2026)

• Rising number of single women threatens Raute population : Alcohol abuse and rigid social taboos leave young women widowed, further shrinking the endangered nomadic community, by Jyotee Katuwal (kp 18/03/2026)

• London talks between Gurkhas and UK discuss veterans’ demands : 19 British MPs ask their government to address the Nepal-sourced fighters’ longstanding concerns, by Anil Giri (kp 18/03/2026)

• Dalit and non-Dalit couple wed in rare arranged marriage : Manju Ramtel and Sangam Rana Magar exchanged traditional vows in the presence of families and local government officials Saturday, by Poshnath Adhikari (kp 17/03/2026)

• Escaping poverty at home, Nepali women fall into the Gulf trap : Thousands of women outside Nepal government’s records are confined by restrictive Kafala rules, by Aarya Chand (kp 16/03/2026)

• Dalit girls account for nearly 20 percent of rape cases in Nepal: Study, by Pabitra Sunar (rep 16/03/2026)

• From disbelief to dominance: Women judges reshape Nepal’s judiciary : From the disbelief that greeted Sharada Shrestha when she became Nepal’s first female judge in 1966 to courts in Makwanpur now run entirely by women, the country’s judiciary reflects a dramatic shift in both representation and attitudes, by Bhasha Sharma (nn 13/03/2026)

• No country for women : The path to public positions for women remains blocked by patriarchal gatekeeping and a ‘culture of ‘tokenism’, by Rishika Dahal and Biken K Dawadi (kp 08/03/2026)

• Dalit Issues In Election Manifestos, by Sushil Darnal (rn 01/03/2026)

Links

Daily updated collection (Nepal Research)

Maps

Historical immigration routes

Traditional settlement areas

Population density

Texts

List of Nepalese surnames and their ethnic classification

Indigenous nationalities and politics in Nepal: constitution and assembly to parliamernt, by Ram Bahadur Thapamagar. Journal of Nepalese Studies 16:1,152-169, November 2024

“No-one cares”: Descent-based discrimination against Dalits in Nepal, report by Amnesty International 2024

Gellner, David N. and Chiara Letizia 2021. ‘Religion and Secularism in Contemporary Nepal’ (Chapter 21) in K. Jacobsen (ed.) Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions, pp. 335–54. Abingdon: Routledge

Nepal's population : immigration and structure, by Karl-Heinz Krämer (Nepal Observer, 18 October 2021)

Elderly Migrants and their Socially Isolated Living, by Bala Ram Acharya. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 18:1,16-27 (2024)

Situation of Gender-Biased Sex Selection in Nepal, by Tulasa Devi Dulal. Patan Gyansagar 6:1,135-146 (2024)

The Constitutional Accommodation of Social Diversity in Nepal, by Sabita Kumari Mallik. Pragyan 4:1,141-156 (2023)

Presentations

Population (introduction)

Society (ethnic groups, castes, religions)

Videos

Caste system traps Nepal's hereditary prostitute (2:11)

Child brides in Nepal (7:02)

Communism fuelled by dehumanising caste system (27:19) (on Dalits)

Das neue Leben der Dalit-Frauen (2018) (7:23)

Lauf des Lebens - Nepals Wundersportlerin Mira Rai (14:32)

Menstruation als Stigma (1:38)

Slow reform to Nepal's child marriage problem (2:26)

Urmila - für die Freiheit (on bonded labour, Kalaris) (42:36)

Upward mobility (disabled people on the roads) (2:19)

Nepal is turning into a nation of hybrid identities (2:16)

Nepal - Hilfe für Frauen in Not (3:56)

Nepal - Kampfsport im Kloster (2018) (2:55)

Nepal's Mighty Gurkhas (25:00)

Why (some) Nepali men are misogynist - Al Jazeera's Subina Shrestha explains! (29:27)

Women's voice - Hilfsprojekt für Nepal (4:15) (on women in Simikot, Humla district)

Nepal - Die Stimme der Frauen (52:50)

Nepal In 4K - Country Of The Highest Mountain In The World (2024) (27:07)

Nepals Eastern central hilly rural areas (2024) (19:00)