ABSTRACT
Introduction explains the book's project and its rationale. The current volume attempts to bring rarely voiced experiences of women in Nepal to light. Primarily relying on ethnography, it brings out multitudes of their experience from classed or ethnic peripheries to paint their picture ‘from below’ mainly based on data from the time period when ‘New Nepal’ was believed by many to be on the horizon (from early 2000s to early 2010s). In the current world where everybody is unwittingly connected with each other in the ever-growing global chain of cause and effect, stereotyped image of others from the ‘peripheral’ parts of it is still pervasive. Women of the global south including Nepal are often times depicted in the simplistic image of ‘women victimized’ in their own regressive tradition. The present project, a very partial and incomprehensive one at that, illuminates such Nepali women's lives in the more nuanced, socio-culturally informed way, attending to their words and deeds on the ground, to construct their picture that connects than divides the world.
