CONTENTS
Articles
Uma Pradhan and Karen Valentin
Free Education? Blurred Public-Private Boundaries in State-Run Schooling in Nepal
Pages 277–298
Benjamin Linder
Mobile Places: Toponymy and the Socio-spatial Extension of Thamel
Pages 299–325
Avash Piya
Just Like a Làhure: Appropriating Identities and Virtues of the Gurkhas
Pages 327–352
Sanae Ito
The Production of Locality through Debris and a Festival: Aftermath of the Gorkha Earthquake in the Kathmandu Valley
Pages 353–383
Bandana Gyawali
Technology and Experiments Outside the Empire: Telephones in Early Twentieth Century Nepal
Pages 385–418
Labisha Uprety
Making Education Policy Choices in a Climate of Uncertainties: A Case Study from Nepal
Pages 419–450
Notes from the Archive
Thomas B. Robertson
U.S. Ambassador Chester Bowles’s 1953 Letter to King Tribhuvan, about Land Reform and U.S. Development Programs in Nepal
Pages 451–474
Review Essay
Avash Bhandari
Toward an Anthropology of Nepali Secularism
Pages 475–484
Book Reviews
Matthew Maycock. 2019. Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal: Transitions into Freedom, reviewed by Diwas Raja Kc
Pages 485–488
Pushkar Bajracharya, Mohan Das Manandhar and Rojan Bajracharya. 2019. Nepal’s Economy in Disarray: The Policies and Politics of Development, reviewed by Dinesh Pant
Pages 489–492
Diwas Raja Kc. 2018. Dalit: A Quest for Dignity, reviewed by Subhash Nepali
Pages 492–495
Fukachi Furukawa. 2020. “Sherupa” to Michi no Jinruigaku, reviewed by Mitsuru Niwa
Pages 495–500
Binda Pandey. 2019. Women in Nepali Politics: Looking through Feminist Perspective, reviewed by Neeti Aryal Khanal
Pages 500–505
