Fatalism and Development: Nepal's Struggle for Modernization

A bold and incisive analysis of nepals society and its attempts to develop and respond to change from someone who is both and insider and an outsider to nepal at an early age dor bahadur bista travelled all over nepal in the company of the leading anthropologist christoph von furer-haimendorf which helped him acquire an insight that enables him to make an objective and frank comment on his country the bulk of the authors argument in this book is that nepals strengths have always been in the indigenous qualities of its various ethnic groups but it has been under the influence of other cultures which have suppressed its own strengths he believes that while nepal should be open to other cultures they should be scrutinized and their negative elements purged before they are adopted nepals future hope lies in its ethnic cultures whose simplicity provides a greater flexibility and thus a greater propensity to development and change than the cumbersome and ossified structure o