TY  - JOUR
IS  - 5
Y1  - 2019///
A1  - Pradhan, Uma
PB  - ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
SP  - 937
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1645084
TI  - Multi-Ethnic Citizens in a Multi-Ethnic State: Constructing State-Citizen Relations Through 'Difference' in the Adivasi Janajati Scholarship Programmes in Nepal
KW  - Citizen
KW  -  difference
KW  -  education
KW  -  ethnicity
KW  -  group-based inequality
KW  -  Nepal
N2  - In 1990, the Constitution of Nepal declared Nepal a multi-ethnic (bahujatiya) country. This newly transformed state promised better inclusion of marginalised groups through special provisions. How has this been operationalised, and what does this mean in practice for the members of the groups concerned? Drawing on fieldwork in the Nepal Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities (NFDIN), this paper argues that the Nepali state?s moral and political obligation to address long-standing concerns about group-based inequalities has opened up intriguing new spaces to perform and redefine state?society relations. Within these new spaces, categories of difference are constantly invoked and experienced, where both the state and citizens come to co-constitute each other in a variety of new ways.
VL  - 42
ID  - discovery10155662
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
SN  - 0085-6401
JF  - South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
EP  - 953
AV  - public
ER  -