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    ISAS Working Papers

    Long-term studies on trends and issues in South Asia

    257 : Democracy and Ethnicity in Nepal

    Krishna Hachhethu

    20 April 2017

    Following a successful conflict transformation of a decade long Maoist insurgency (1996-2006) with the promulgation of the new constitution in September 2015, Nepal has entered into the verge of new conflict, an ethnic conflict. Ethnicity has recently become a critical issue in responding to the fact that the political structure of Nepal has not yet been framed in conformity to the social diversity of the country