ABSTRACT
Despite the number of publications on the Maoist movement in Nepal, little is yet known about its impact on the lives of peasants in rural areas where the Party ruled the villages. However, the documentation published by journalists and members of the Maoist Party allows drawing a general picture of the changes introduced by the Cultural Revolution in western Nepal.1 These pages offer an outline of the latter in the year 2005, taken from the Maoist weekly Janadesh. This picture serves as a framework to situate my observations at the time on the changes introduced in Deurali, a locality in the hills of mid-western Nepal, which was selected by the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M)) to be a Model Village.
