CNSUK’s members at a reception to celebrate the bicentenary of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Nepal at the Locarno Suite, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London on Wednesday 16th December 2015.
The Centre for Nepal Studies UK invites applications from Master’s students studying in Nepali universities for a small grant (scholarship) up to a maximum of Rs 50,000 to provide assistance with expenses incurred during fieldwork and/or the writing of dissertations on subjects related to Nepal-Britain relations. This Motilal Singh Master’s Dissertation Scholarship 2016, which is …
On 11 February the LSESU Nepalese Society hosted an expert panel to discuss Nepal’s long-awaited new Constitution. The included Professor Michael Hutt, Dr Mara Malagodi, Dr Punam Yadav and Dr Chandra Laksamba.
A book on Nepal’s development, also contributed by two of CNSUK’s researchers and members is out now. The book is edited by Dr Ambika P Adhikari and Dr Govinda Dahal et al. and contributed in various ways by 34 other experts in the field, the book looks impressive and is an important piece on Nepal’s socio-economic development.
CNSUK’s Sr. Researcher Dr Krishna Adhikari (ex-ED), who is also the General Secretary of BNAC, paid a courtesy call to Dr Gail Marzetti, Head of DFID Nepal, and Richard Morris, HE British Ambassador to Nepal in their respective offices today. In particular, issues of academic and research interests as well as those related to Bicentenary …
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 …
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.
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 …
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; …
