Reading, UK – The Centre for Nepal Studies UK (CNSUK) is delighted to announce the launch of Nepal Dialogue UK, a new monthly online webinar series designed to share knowledge about Nepal, its culture, and its diaspora, while fostering collaborations. The series will officially begin on Saturday, 4th January 2025. “This initiative is a significant […]
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Members of the Centre for Nepal Studies of UK presented their research results in the 14th Nepal Studies Days held in Liverpool John Moore University on 14-15 April 2016. Dr Chandra Laksamba (with Krishna Adhikari, Lokendra Dhakal and Dr Sangita Shrestha) presented, “Which Direction are We Going? Social Mobility and the Nepali Community in the
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Fraser Sugden, who is affiliated to CNSUK as a Fellow, made a presentation on ‘Agrarian change, climate stress and shifting class relations in the Nepal-Bihar borderlands’ as organized by the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, Oxford.20.05.2016. Podcast (external link) here here: http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/socanth/anthropology/2016-05-19-socanth-anthropology-sugden.mp3. — with Fraser Sugdenand David N. Gellner.
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Centre for Nepal Studies UK team, consisting of Executive Director Lokendra Purush Dhakal, members Dr Chandra Laksamba, and Dr Krishna Adhikari, and advisor Prof David Gellner, visited Headquarters of British of Gurkhas, and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . CNSUK thanks to Col J G Robinson, Maj Kumar Surya Rai, Maj J Buckley, Maj D B
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Coinciding with the date of CNSUK’s establishment, on the 11th June 2017 CNSUK is holding a workshop programme on: ‘Political and civic participation: experience and way forward’. In the workshop, we the CNSUK is trying to bring as many of the 19 UK Nepali community leaders, who contested in the past UK local elections, as
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This year’s CNSUKs summer Retreat was held on 05 August in Reading. In the programme CNSUK’s members reviewed yearly activities, inter alia : translation and publication of the report on Gurkha Pensions Policies into Nepali language; publication of open access Journal of the Global Nepali Diaspora; Motilal Singh Master’s Dissertation Scholarship to graduate students in Nepal;
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We are very delighted to share this case study report prepared by the Common Cause Research Project, a consortium of research led by various institutions including the University of Bristol. Their study tries to understand the research partnership between a mainstream UK University/Inistution and ethnic minority communities. Centre for Nepal Studies and the University of
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Applications invited forMotilal Singh Master’s Dissertation Scholarship 2019 The Centre for Nepal Studies UK (CNSUK), in collaboration of Social Science Baha (SSB), Kathmandu, invites applications from students pursuing their Master’s studies in Nepali universities for one small grant of up to a maximum of NPR 40,000 towards fieldwork expenses and/or the writing of dissertation. This Motilal
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We are very sad to learn that CNSUK Advisor Emeritus Professor Peter Jarvis, University of Surrey, passed away on 20th November 2018, at the age of 81. Professor Jarvis supported CNSUK since its inception. We at CNSUK are very much grateful for his advices and supports during last 12 years. A supervisor of our colleague Dr. Chandra Laksamba’s PhD project on lifelong learning
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The book is edited by Prof David N. Gellner and Sondra L. Hausner and contributed by Dr. Krishna Adhikari, Dr. Chandra K. Laksamba, Dr. Bal Gopal Shrestha , Dr Flo Gurung and Dr-Mitra Pariyar, is primarily based on the research on the Vernacular Religion of Nepal Diaspora jointly conducted by the Centre for Nepal Studies UK and Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (2009-12)
