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Caste in Gurkha communities : The patron-client system has become extinct, yet untouchability is still practised among the Gurkhas, by Mitra Pariyar (kp 20/02/2024)

Battle Against Casteism, by Bini Dahal (rn 08/09/2023)

Caste system and religious conversion in Nepal, by Sushant Nepali (rep 21/08/2023)

Caste-based discrimination persists despite being outlawed in Nepali society : Dalit activists say lax legal provisions pose a significant challenge to swift justice delivery for cases of discrimination, by Rupa Gahatraj (kp 28/07/2023)

Caste killing progress : Nepali Sarkis could have created luxury leather goods and become another Louis Vuitton, by Mitra Pariyar (kp 25/07/2023)

Caste doesn’t just exist in India or in Hinduism – it is pervasive across many religions in South Asia and the diaspora, by Aseem Hasnain  and Abhilasha Srivastava (The Conversation 27/04/2022) [see also kp 01/05/2022]

39 cases of caste-based discrimination (ht 28/03/2022)

Eradicate Caste-Based Crimes, by Shreya Joshi and Rakshya Singh (rn 25/11/2021)

Season 2 of ‘Jaat Ko Prashna’ highlights the ills of the caste system : At the heart of the recently released show are the voices of those impacted by caste-based discrimination and violence, by Pinki Sris Rana (kp 24/11/2021)

What does it mean to be a casteist? To not be a casteist, we must recognize that caste is structural and exists in invisible forms in Nepali society, by Tarun Timalsina (rec 08/07/2021))

An ideology of exclusion : Only by exposing its fraudulent nature can caste be eradicated from the Hindu consciousness, by Pramod Mishra (kp 22/10/2020)

Nepal’s casteist youths: Of the Nepali youths I surveyed, most said human beings are equal. Yet they also expressed their reluctance to marry outside their caste, by Mim Bahadur Pariyar (ae 14/08/2020)

COVID-19 sharpens caste discrimination in Nepal: Dalit returnees from India face double discrimination at home even after recovering from coronavirus infection, by Unnati Chaudhary (nt 14/08/2020)

Caste and the subtle psychology behind it, by Shreya Soni (ht 12/07/2020)

A year-old child is paying the price of his brother’s eloping with a Dalit: It’s been eight years since Nepal was declared ‘untouchability free’, but caste-based discrimination is still practiced widely in the country, by Pramita Dhakal (kp 11/07/2019)

Casteism is so deeply entrenched, not even law can deter it: Elected representatives from Dalit communities say they are discriminated by their own colleagues (kp 19/06/2019)

Campaign against casteism: Reframing the narrative around caste-based discrimination warrants a different outlook, by Rajendra Senchurey (kp 24/03/2019)

Structural blindness: The foundation of modern Nepal lies in the caste system of governance, by Subhash Nepali (kp 05/02/2019)

Brahmins in Dailekh refuse to observe Rakshya Bandhan, by Govinda KC (rep 27/08/2018)

Even local representatives not spared of caste-based discrimination, by Binod Pariyar (rep 18/08/2018)

'Joint feast' to end caste-based discrimination, by Govinda KC (rep 17/03/2018)

The Bahun narrative: Caste hierarchy is seen as a Bahun-Chhetri phenomenon, but all societies have caste- and race-based discrimination, by Trailokya Raj Aryal (rep 24/05/2017) [A typical example of failed understanding of the issue: The problem of Nepal is the identification of state and nationalism with the social thinking and culture of the male Tagadhari elite, especially that of the Bahuns, over centuries. Dalits, Janajatis, Madhesis and women in general always had to respect this Bahun conception as given and were left without any chance of inclusion till today!!]

Caste-based discrimination still rife in Bajhang villages, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 19/02/2017)

Question of empowerment: Caste or class?, by Atindra Dahal (ht 16/12/2016)

Caste in doubt: If the struggle is for the rights of everyone, how can that ‘everyone’ not include Dalits?, by Deepak Thapa (kp 01/12/2016)

A question of rites: I have come to realise that Hindu rituals need to be redefined and reformulated, by Shiva Rijal (kp 03/01/2016)

Caste as culprit: Was the recent acid attack on two schoolgirls an outcome of a lover’s rejection or of being rejected by society?, by Hritika Rana (kp 10/04/2015)

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