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Title: NEPALI MODERNITY IN THE BACKDROP OF SOUTH ASIAN MODERNITY
Authors: PHUYAL, KOMAL PRASAD
Keywords: Nepali modernity
Issue Date: 25-Mar-2019
Abstract: This research argues that Nepali modernity can be approached through two features: influence and initiation. Studying Nepal in the backdrop of South Asia, I examine both similarities and the differences between two modernities. This study makes use of literary and historical texts to analyze Nepali modernity, and critical and theoretical texts to outline the contours of South Asian modernity. I take the conventional geography of South Asia in order to locate the regional backdrop for analysis of Nepali modernity. In this context, the distinct position of Nepali modernity is perceived in South Asian cultural milieu even while the local shares certain attributes with the regional. Since the historical jolts that are reflected in historical transformation are the crucial points for examination in such study of modernity, both Nepali and South Asian modernities show variation in terms of social change and its various dimensions like the nature of subjectivity formation, the approach to assert agency, the formation of social imagination, and the quest for social well-being. The way of relating each category with the ethos of present also displays that South Asia is deeply affected by the colonial encounter whereas Nepal still continues to maintain its associations with classically established practices in the past. Through content analysis of the literary and historical texts, this study examines modernity in relation to social change in that formation of subjectivity, evolution of agency, projection of social imagination, and the drive to social wellbeing which appear in historical transformation are found in such texts. The social structures shape human personality in terms with the prevailing norms, whereby resulting in subjectivity. In other words, subjectivity is conceptually linked and grounded in the notion of tradition.
URI: http://103.69.125.248:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/499
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