Nepal, which occupies the central section of the Himalayan range, is inhabited by an extraordinary variety of peoples. The mountains, hills and plains of the country comprise a contact zone for ethnic groups with origins in today's Sechuan-Yunnan highlands and caste groups whose original ancestors cmore
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Most papers included in this compilation are presentations made at various events during the International Year of Mountain 2002. Of these, seven are keynote address and one commissioned paper (Chapter 6) and another for a professional journal (9). In terms of area coverage, five have a regional scomore
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Table of Contents:
Forward
Detailed Content
I. Introduction
A. Ethnic Groups
B. Ethnicity and Language
II. Ethnic Groups
A. Mountain
B. Hill
C. Inner Tarai
D. Tarai
III. Caste Group
E. Hill, Upper Caste
F. Hill Dalit
G. Tarai, Upper Caste
H. Tarai Dalit
IV. Others
I. Othermore
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