Blighted Hopes of Inclusion: Nepal’s Promising Restructuring Betrayed

Professor Lok Raj Baral, one of Nepal’s most respected liberal public intellectuals, in an op-ed article in The Kathmandu Post wrote of violence as necessary to shake up the Himalayan kingdom’s entrenched structure of domination by hill upper castes, the Bahun-Chettris, so as to bring in institutionally excluded social groups such as the Janajatis, Dalits and Madheshis.