Articles

Research Report

Nepal’s Troubled Tarai Region – ICG Report NEPAL’S OTHER INSURGENCY Frontier Migration and Upward Mobility: The Case of Nepal Book Review::Regionalism and National Unity in Nepal Madheshi Movement in Defense of Democracy and Madheshi Nationalism Indigenous Nationalities & Minorities of Nepal THE CONSTITUTION AS THE SOURCE OF EXCLUSION – 4th CHAPTER Indo-Nepal Economic : Cooperation and its Impact on Terai Social Inclusion of Madheshi Community in Nation Building Ethnicity and Rights: A Guide to the Study of Discriminatory Social Relations in Nepal The Concept of Decentralized System of Governance in the Context of Balanced Development of Nepal Promoting Inclusion: Combating Exclusion Promoting Inclusion: Combating Exclusion India and the Crisis in Nepal: The Madhesi Option Madhesis: A Political Force in the Making? Integrated National Index of Governance

Press Release

Memorandom for Nepalese Ethnic Conflict ANTA – Press Release ANTA – Press Release March 23, 2007 A White Paper:Some Perspectives on Resolving the Terai Conflicts Letter – Tarai Crisis PRESS RELEASE REGARDING GAUR INCIDENCE Letter to UN Secretary General Letter – Madheshis Leaders should ask help from India Letter To Nepalese Embassy in Delhi Letter – Rallies demading equality PRESS RELEASE REGARDING GAUR INCIDENCE Complaint Petition to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Human Rights of Indigenous Madheshi in Nepal Press Release – JTMM (Jwala) MADHESH PEACE UNIVERSITY Announced

Other Perspective

South Asia struggles with floods Madhes at Crossroads Madhes rises THE NEPAL INDIA OPEN BORDER Leave it to us Backforce of Terai Violence in Nepal Disclosed ISSUES OF MADHESH Peaceful Resolution of Ethnopolitical Movement in Nepal Madhesh तराई दमन, गृहयुद्धको विजारोपण Deadline for talks- or dead-end to talks? Talking about nationality and freedom यातनागृह, स्वतन्त्रता र अनुदार नेता SUICIDAL GAME THAT IT IS Paddy in Bihar’s Tharuhat State of confusion Poll-itical solution The unrepentant state Transformation of Madhesh The price of radicalism Playing with matches The rise of a party Madesh Crisis: No End In Sight Taking Madhesi Movement to New Heights Open Letter to Mrs. Chitralekha Yadav, Deputy Speaker An unfinished uprising Madhesi Dream: A Madhesi Nepal ? मधेसी व्रि्रोह र मेरो राजिनामा मधेस समस्या र आसन्न संविधानसभा No King? No Nepal A View of Madhesi Movement Khas Chauvinism and Madhesi Revolt The Terai Crisis Deepening Discussion: Are you Satisfied ? What next? Madhesi Movement:Blessing in disguise? PRECARIOUS POLITICS ALL NEPALI ROADS END IN DELHI Nepal’s Trouble And Nationalism? BARBARISM UNLIMITED! Time running out for Nepal Madhesi Brothers, Stop Killing Each Other Disaster havocs Madhesh Truly new The Shining Nepalese vs. The Suffering Nepalese जातीय संघीयता नै चाहिन्छ Hills, Mountains and Terai: An Ecosystem जातीय संस्थाहरूको समझदारी Sliding Towards Civil War MOST OF THE MADHESHI PEOPLE ARE LOOSING THEIR IDENTITY All fired up and nowhere to go Keep it together From social exclusion to social cohesion Two new armed groups emerge – Radio Australia The new battlefront मधेसी व्रि्रोह ः चुनौती र अवसर उत्तर र दक्षिणको दबाबमा मधेस No-Mandate: Nepal is under “Political Slavery of ½ dozen “Political Guys”! The Madhesi Issue in Nepal Madhesh Vs Maoist: or Sitaula is using PLA to protect his Job? A country in interim People Drag Leaders to Democracy राज्य पुनःसंरचनाको आन्दोलन Dialogue for Integrated and Affluent Nepal New Confrontations, Old Coercion India’s National-Security Stakes In Nepal In Favor of Ethnic States Nepalis want to stand Nepal in Transition: Public Trial For Past Crimes People Drag Leaders to Democracy Terai: Ending the Deadlock Terai: Risks of Trivialization Madheshi people reject marginalisation Stop Politics Save Nepal American pie in Nepal Democracy On A Razor Edge Reality of Controversial Statement And Security Madhesh movement and possible solutions Nepal’s minorities raise the stakes Democratic jitters Madhesh Movement and Federalism It’s all good Acute hearing Walk the talk Muharram in madhes Why now? New conflict looming on the horizon for Nepal Political Unrest in “Terai” Region of Nepal Assuming Dangerous Proportions New Government Seeing Bad Reflections In Nepal Violence Let’s Salvage the Terai Havoc! Nepal’s unsettling peace NON VIOLENCE MUST BE PRACTICED Nepal: A New Dawn and Some Scepticism Nepal rioting threatens political transition Confused Leadership, Derailed Polity and Bewildered People Doing Justice Right DIALOGUE FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF MADHESHI MOVEMENT Letter – Rallies demading equality In the central and eastern tarai, rage, determination, and grief Keep Talking Plain speaking Harka’s maps Nepal: Time for Talks as Violence Continues The Interim Constitution; the Madhesi Turmoil Madhes Violence: Identity Clash in Nepal Nepal: Confusion and Finding Scapegoats Balkanization Threatens Nepal, Discrimination driving separatism in Terai नेपालगञ्ज घटनाको असर OPEN LETTER TO MR SHEETAL KUMAR Ten Reasons Why Nepal Should Join India विभाजनको बीउ नरोपौं State, Maoists and Madhesh Draw the line Need you be anti-Indian to be pro-Nepali? Terror in Terai: Missing Seriousness सामन्ती संस्कारलाई तोड्दै मधेशी समुदायमा सामूहिक विवाह Listen to Terai grievances! मधेसका माग Nepali too Mahabharata: The Tharu Barka Naach Nepal: In the throes of more wars Old wounds threaten new Nepal Tarai violence डा.महासेठको अवरुद्ध गला र ज्वाला सिंहको बम JTMM, CA Elections and Restructuring of Nepal अधिकारको माग कि साम्प्रदायिकता ‘Freed’ Kamaiyas- A distant dream The Kamaiyas’ Indo-Nepal Border and the state of Bihari Nepali What does it mean to be a Nepali ? िफर से कह दो एक बार इन्िकलाब Open your eyes पहाडी मधेशी दंगा, मधेशी जनजाित गठबंधन, र िनर्णायक, अिहंसात्मक अन्ितम अान्दोलनको खाँचो सशस्त्र विद्रोहको अन्त्य कि शुरुवात तराइ बल्दैछ अब मधेशी मुद्दाको राष्ट्रियकरण Put out this fire बस्ती-बस्तीबाट उठे तर्राईमा साम्प्रदायिक भड्काव, पहाडियाहरू खेदिन थाले साम्प्रदायिक सोच तर्राईमा बल्न लागेको विद्वेषको आगो Himalayan Double Standard HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS MADHESHI PEOPLE IN NEPAL दोयम दर्जे की जिंदगी जीने को मजबूर हैं नेपाली मधेशी भारत की नीति व नेपाल की नीयत पर टिका सुस्ता का भविष्य सात दल र माओवादीबीच सम्झौता – अब मधेशीलाई सशस्त्र संर्घष्ाको निम्तो दलितको टाउकोमा मण्डलको कमण्डल प्रादेशिक स्वायत्तता र अखण्डता मध्यतराईमा धूलो दूध कारखाना Plains speaking Hate India, Love India THOUGHTS FOR MADHESH STATE Crisis of research on Terai Dalits Say No To Bandhs Some light on other social and political issues Nepal: “light at end of tunnel” —for tribal peoples too? A Walk Through the Tarai The media’s ethnic gap Laudable Work Ethnic Conflicts in South Asia with Special Reference of Nepal परिवर्तनको हलचल मधेशी महिलाको दयनीय स्थिति: बाधक को ? नागरिकताबिना संविधानसभा अकल्पनीय News, Controversy and Public Reactions Towards a Democratic Nepal: Inclusive Institutions for a Multicultural Society मन्त्रीज्यूको खोक्रो मधेसीवाद Tarai crude Disturbances in Terai परमेन्द्रको पढनेके बाद स्वशासन की मांग कुचलने नेपाल चला चीन की राह लोकतन्त्रमा मधेश गिरजा, माधव, प्रचण्ड सब एक जैसे हैं मधेशी दलित, भूमि र नागरिकताको पीडा Game Theory and Madhesi Dilemma Rastra ko Sabal ra madhesi janta विश्वविद्यालयमा समावेशीकरण समावेशी लोकतन्त्रको स्वरुप र संरचनामा कर्णालीलगायत पिछडिएका क्षेत्र Live and Let Others Live The tarai people are not one faceless group Nepal’s Tarai: Backwater or New Frontier राष्ट्र, राष्ट्रियता र नागरिकता संविधानसभामा मधेसको एजेन्डा DISCRIMINATION: UNTIL WHEN? मधेसमा अनेरास्ववियुका चुनौती Land Reforms, Key to Social Harmony Clash Of Two Civilization Clash Of Two Civilization Factors Behind the Maoist People’s War-IV RESTRUCTING of the STATE Harmful arsenic found in Terai water Discrimination – how far? How long? Colonial subjects or masters of their own destiny? के यो न्याय हो खुला सिमाना र मधेस Time to Test The Politics Of State Restructuring Dalit and Dalit Women of Terai SEPARATISM OR FREEDOM मधेसलाई हेर्ने दृष्टिकोण Tigers in the Plains Tarai tinderbox Now Ethnic Separatism Tarai on a slow burn Democracy is incompatible with the concentration of power Women Rule The Roost Inclusion of the excluded Madheshis The Politics of Citizenship in Nepal Nepal’s Terai people neglected Life cycle Nepal’s ‘other’ half GOODWILL HUNTING Nepali Nationalism Police brutality on Madhesies demanding Citizenship at Janakpur Shalaam Shaab! Nepal’s Citizenless Citizens Cultural flows across a blurred boundary who Am I ? Nepalese of Indian origin, or Indian of Nepalese origin or Bihari ?? NRIs in Nepal Dalit Youths for Social Change In a state of statelessness: a case study of the citizens without citizenship in Nepal In a state of statelessness Proud to be Madheshi? Proud to be Madheshi? II

Madhes History

The Treaty of Segowlee Memorandum for the approval and acceptance of the Rajah of Nipal Substance of a Letter under the Seal of the Rajah of Nipal Treaty of 1950 with India History of Terai in Nepal A History of Nepal – Cambridge University Press Historical: King Mukunda Sen’s Invasion of Kathmandu Valley Historical:: Kingdom of Vijayapur in 1770 AD Historical Entity of Vijayapur State Historical:: The Sen Kingdoms Historical: Terai sold for 2 Elephants Historical: Jung Bahadur pleasure at the cost of Terai plight Historical::Administrative Arrangements in the Eastern Historical:: A REPORT ON SOME OBSERVATIONS MADE AT THE RUINS OF THE FORMER CAPITAL OF MITHILA IN THE TERAI OF NEPAL Pre-history about Dang valley and Tharu in generous People Madhesh Integration into Nepal: Historical Case & Context Historical: An Excerpts from “THE CAPITAL OF NEPAUL” An Excerpt from “SPORT AND WORK ON THE NEPAUL FRONTIER” थरुहट तर्राई कि मधेश ? Madhesh or Terai and Tharus or Madheshis: New Frontier of Etymopolitics in Nepal MADHESH/TERAI AND THARUS /MADHESHIS: NEPAL’S NEW FRONTIER OF ETYMOPOLITICS MADHESH AND MADHESHI: A GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE मधेश, तर्राई र आदिवासी थारू The Story of the Nepali Plains Janakpur Bomb Incidence – 1961 AD Jadukoha Event 1972 (2029 BS) Bomb Incidence of 1985 (2042 BS) and Inhuman Torture

Interviews

‘WE WANT A FREE COUNTRY, NEITHER NEPAL NOR INDIA’ – Jaikrishna Goit ‘I WILL TALK, BUT NOT TO COMPROMISE’ – Upendra Yadav वार्ताका लागि तयार छौँ तर गृहमन्त्रीले राजीनामा दिनुपर्छ – उपेन्द्र यादव Rajendra Mahto Interview with KESHAB POUDEL Interview with Sarita Giri मधेसी समस्या र राज्यको पुनर्संरचना – हृदयेश त्रिपाठी शङ्कैशङ्काले लङ्का हान्नसक्छ- हृदयेश त्रिपाठी महेन्द्रवादी चश्माले वास्तविक मधेश देख्दैन – भरतविमल यादव Interview with Jwala Singh(Heads JTMM) Palace and India in madhesh – Matrika Yadav A unified Madhes – Matrika Yadav पहाडियामा शासकीय र मधेशीहरुमा दास मनोवृत्ति छ: मात्रृका यादव Prachanda on Madhesi मधेसीहरूलाई व्यवहारमै नेपालीको रूपमा अझै हेरिएको छैन – अमरेशकुमार सिंह The Political Situation in Nepal – Interview Mahendra Lawoti Interview – Bhulai Chaudhary

New Analysis

Why Madhesis of Nepal Agitating? Editorial Analysis: Crisis Deepens in Madhesh Gaur Massacre: Issues, Contradictions and Conundrums Galore Nepal – Lessons from Gaur Incident Aftermaths of Madhesi Uprising Nepal – The Madhesi Movement Lessons Nepal PM’s address on 7th Feb Special Edit: The Madhesi Revolt Nepal: Eight Die as Protests Continue Nepal: Death Toll Climbs to 10 Nepal: 27 Killed and Counting Lament for Lahan Lahan’s losers नेपालगन्ज काण्डका महत्त्वपूर्ण पाटा Khas Chauvinism and Madhesi Revolt Madheshi Murmurings Government wants Maoist to finish-off Madheshi Condemn – A Black Night

Case Studies

Case Study:: आज पनि नेपालगन्ज अशान्त, सदभाव र्याली बिथोल्दै दङ्गा भड्क्यो Case Study – Micro Credit Reduces Violence Case Study – Growing Human-Elephant Conflict Case Study – Settling Susta Border Dispute Case Study- Siliguri to Janakpur Case Study – जागीरे गाउँको जाँगर Case Study – Tale of two towns in the tarai Case Study – The Samosa Man Case Study – धर्मको नाममा पाप Case Study – Madhesi dalits are on no one’s agenda Case Study: Madhesi dalits are on no one’s agenda Case Study – Crisis of Identity and Compulsions of Survival: Paradox of a Madhesi Youth Case Study – Haat Colors Case Study – Madhesi Dalit Case Study: Real problem II Case Study: Real problem

Forest Politics

A History of Forest Politics in the Terai : A Case of Equity or Ecology? Widening the Gap between Terai and Hill Farmers in Nepal Nepal becoming country of marginal farmers Where Is The Land To Distribute? Knowledge Systems thinking to initiate Nepal’s forestry sector reform