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Citizens’ Movement for Democracy and Peace: Mass Mobilisation in Nepal’s People’s Movement II / Basnet, Chudamani

Basnet, Chudamani	Journal Article
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Based on interviews with journalists, political party leaders and civil society activists, this article examines and illustrates the strategic capacities of leadership in Nepalese efforts to bolster the movement for democracy. With the help of Bourdieu’s concepts of social, cultural and symbolic capitals, the article provides insights into the crucial role of key individuals as leaders and examines their skilful use of activist synergies to spearhead significant political change in Nepal. The study demonstrates how a seemingly resource-poor movement can nevertheless mobilise the popular masses against an autocratic ruler.

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Media ; Civil Society ; Leadership ; Nepal ; Activism ; Citizen’s Movements

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Female Employers and their Maids in New Delhi: This is Our Culture / Basnet, Chudamani ; Sandhya, A S

Chudamani Basnet	Journal Article
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The domestic labour market in India reflects how various classes of women manage their daily lives, whether as employers of domestic workers or as employees. The cultural underpinnings of various intersecting relationships implicated in this scenario have remained underresearched in India. Based on a qualitative study in a specific neighbourhood of New Delhi, this article shows that certain cultural strategies pursued by female employers explain their differential behaviour towards specific groups of maids. Observing that these female employers in Delhi prefer Nepali maids over native Indians, even if the latter are willing to work for lower wages, we set out to analyse why and how these employers evaluate immigrant Nepali maids as sharing ‘our’ culture, while native Indians are classified as the cultural ‘other’.

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Caste ; India ; Nepal ; Women ; Muslims ; Labour market ;
Domestic Workers ; COVID-19 ; Maids

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