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New Dog, Old Tricks: Nepal’s Road to Federalism
Almost two decades have passed since the end of the civil war in Nepal but the country still struggles to address the legacy of the long conflict. The Nepali Civil War, which lasted a decade from 1996 to 2006 arose primarily due to uneven development and discrimination that plagued Nepal. The then elected government, formed under the constitutional monarch in 1991, and drawn from the previous system of total monarchy between 1960 to 1990, was highly centralised with political power concentrated in Kathmandu. This led to the ostracization of rural inhabitants who lived in destitute conditions and found little to no support from the state.
19.02.2025
