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The Agenda of Transformation: Inclusion in Nepali Democracy
organised by
Social Science Baha
24-26 April, 2003, Birendra International Convention Centre, Kathmandu
 
Schedule    
  9:00   Plenary
11:00   Tea break
11:30   Working sessions
  1:30   Lunch
  3:00   Working sessions
  5.00   Working sessions end
     
Note:  

A special screening of Uhileko Nepal (47 mins, Nepali), a documentary made by the late Toni Hagen from the footage he shot during his extensive travels around Nepal in the decade of the 1950s, will be held at Nuptse Hall at 6:00 pm, 25 April (Friday).
     
Plenaries   (Nuptse Hall)
24 April:   Welcome by Rajendra Pradhan, chair, Social Science Baha
The Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture
delivered by Harka Gurung—‘Trident and thunderbolt: Culture dynamics in Nepalese politics’
Chair: Novel Kishore Rai
     
25 April:   ‘Inclusion and regional space’—panel discussion
Presentations:
Ramawatar Yadav – on Madhesh
Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa – on high Himalaya
Maj Gen (retd) Ganesh Mahara – on Far-West
Kanak Mani Dixit – on Kathmandu-centricism
Moderator: C.K. Lal
     
26 April:   ‘Women in Nepali democracy’—panel discussion
Presentation: Sapana Malla Pradhan
Panelists: Krishna Bhattachan
Shanta Thapaliya
Seira Tamang
Teeka Bhattarai
Moderator: Sarita Giri
     
     
Working sessions
24 April (Thursday) 		   
Gauri Hall   Shankar Hall
11:30 am – 1:30 pm   11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Social, cultural and economic exclusion – I   Theoretical perspectives – I
1. Dilli Ram Dahal—‘Hindu nationalism and untouchable reform: The status of dalits in Nepali society’   1. John Whelpton—‘Nepalese democracy and its discontents’
     
2. Jagannath Adhikari -‘Exclusion and access to economic opportunities: Implications for political participation and conflicts’  

2. Tom Carothers—‘The end of the transition paradigm’

     
3. Gopal Guru—‘Spectre of exclusion’   3. Neera Chandhoke—‘Living with diversity’
     
Chair: Chaitanya Mishra   Chair: Lok Raj Baral
     
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm   3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Structures and visions – I   Theoretical perspectives – II
     
1. Walter Kaelin—‘Inclusive constitutional law’   1. Stephen Mikesell—‘Unfinished agendas of the 1990 Movement’
     

2. Sudhindra Sharma—‘The dharmashastric view(s) of Hindu kingship: Implications for the debate on constitutional monarchy and democracy in Nepal’

  2. Saubhagya Shah—‘Nepali dystopia: The search for an articulating state’
     

3. Lynn Bennett—‘Towards an inclusive society: The role of state policy and institutional reform in enabling more effective and equitable agency among diverse groups in Nepal’

   
     
Chair: Pratyoush Onta   Chair: Dilli Ram Dahal
     
     
Working sessions
25 April (Friday) 		   
Gauri Hall   Shankar Hall
11:30 am – 1:30 pm   11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Social, cultural and economic exclusion – II   Inclusion at the grassroots

1. Judith Pettigrew—‘Relating to the state: Ethno-political concerns of rural Gurungs’

   1. Bihari K. Shrestha—‘Democracy and traditional social order in rural Nepal: The inclusionary ferment of change at the grassroots’
     

2. David N. Gellner—‘Inclusion, hybridity, social order: Preconditions of democracy’

  2. Sara Shneiderman—‘Political consciousness and agency in rural Nepal: Reflections from Dolakha and Sindhupalchowk’
     
3. Bishnu Raj Upreti—‘Social exclusion and the centralism as source of conflict in Nepal: Ways forward for rebuilding trust’   3. Genevieve Lakier—‘Public spectacle and political power: The bandh and democracy in Nepal’
     
Chair: Anup Pahari   Chair: Sharon Hepburn
     
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm   3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Structures and visions – II   Politics of language
1. Krishna Bhattachan—‘Expected model and process of inclusive democracy in Nepal’   1. Pratyoush Onta—‘Radio and the politics of democratic culture in Nepal’
     
2. Krishna Hachhethu—‘The question of inclusion and exclusion in Nepal: Interface between state and ethnicity’   2. Mark Turin—‘The many tongues of the nation: Ethnolinguistic politics in post-1990 Nepal’
     
3. Krishna Khanal—‘Ethnicity, exclusion and autonomy: Remaking of the constitution’   3. Rhoderick Chalmers—‘The language of Pushkin and the language of pundits: Perspectives on Sanskritisation, Nepali, and political participation’
     
Chair: Anirudha Gupta   Chair: Santa Bahadur Pun
     
     
Working sessions
26 April (Saturday) 		   
Gauri Hall   Shankar Hall
11:30 am – 1:30 pm   11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Structures and visions – III   Institutional exclusion – I
     
1. Bharat Raj Upreti—‘Constitution and electoral reform’   1. Teeka Bhattarai and Bijaya Subba—‘Disabled democracy: Leaders lacking political consciousness’
     
2. Michael Hutt—‘Ideal Nepal and the voices of Nepali writers’   2. Mahendra Lawoti—‘Inclusive democratic institutions for Nepal’
     
   

3. Tanka Subba—‘ “Inclusion” in Indian democracy: lessons for Nepal’

     
Chair: A.K. Sinha   Chair: David Gellner
     
    3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Institutional exclusion – II
    1. Anup Pahari—‘From liberation to insurgency: The politics of paradoxes in Nepal, 1990-2003’
     
    2. Seira Tamang—‘Civilizing civil society: Donors and democratic space’
     

 

   3. Hari Roka—‘Towards a politics of inclusion: Redefining parties for democratisation in Nepal’
     
    3. Dipak Gyawali—‘Space for ethical voice’
     
    Chair: Lynn Bennett
 

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