Compu Courses
Year
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Code: Alt. Eng. +tL 4"L
Full Marks: 100
Pass Marks: 40
Teaching Hours: 150
Course Description: This course exposes ve domicile students to Nepali life and
letters. Through,readings of cultural and literary writings in English, it encourages them to
understand ani appreciate the Nepali worldviews 1'rom different perspectives.
UNIT I: HISTORY OF NEPAL (WHELPTON) 40
E,nvironment, state and society in the central Himalayas to 1743
Uniflcation and Sanskritisation, 1 743- I 885
Nepal under the Shamsher Ranas, I 883- l 95 I
The monarchy in ascendance domestic politics and foreign relations, 1951 - 1991
The quest for development: economy and environment, I 95 I - l99l
Lifesiyles, values, identities: change in Nepalese society, I 95 I - l 991
Democracy and disillusionment: Nepal since 1991
UNIT II: PEOPLE & CULTURE (BISTA) 2s
Brahman, Chhetri and the Occupational Castes of the Hills
Newar
Rai
Limbu
Tamang
Magar
Khas
Sunwar and Jirel
Gurung
Thakali
Panchgaunle
Chepang
Brahman, Rajput and the Occupational Castes of the Terai
Tharu
Danuwar, Majhi and Darai
Rajbansi
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Satar
Dhimal and Bodo
Dhangar
Musalman
Sherpa
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Thundam and ToPke Gola PeoPle
Olangchung PeoPle
Lopa of Mustang
Baragaunle
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Dolpo People
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Larke and Star PeoPle
Rautye
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UNIT III: POETRY & PROSE
Poetry (Hutt):
Lekhnath Paudel' "An Ode to Death"
Balkrishna Sama' "Man Himself is God"
Siddhicharan Shrestha' "A Suffering World"
Parijat' "ln the Arms of Death"
Bhupi Sherchen' "Always Always in My Dream"
Prose (Fiennes):
' Prashant Jha. "Battles of the New Republic"
KamalPrakashMalla...KathmanduYourKathmandu,,
.oFrom Goddess to Mortal,,
Rashmila Shakya & Scott Berry'
Shradha Ghale. "The Deeper Catastrophe"
WeenaPun...WanderingSouls,WonderingFamilies,'
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UNIT IV: FICTION & NARRATIVE
(Hutt)
Guru Prasad Mainali' "A Blaze in the Straw"
Bishweshwar P' Koirala' "The Soldier" (Fiennes)
MaYa Thakuri' "TraP" (Fiennes)
Samrat Upadhyay' "Buddha's Orphans" (Fiennes)
Manjushree Thapa' The Tutor o.f History
UNIT V: THEATRE & PERFORMANCE
Laxmi Prasad Devkota. Muna Madan
Abhi Subedi. Dreams of Peach Blossom
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Evaluation system
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Internal evaluation 30% (internal examination, year comp. course)
;;;" be written alongthe guide-lines of BA First
'Extemal exarrrlrratturr,
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prescribed rexts: tlil'*>
Ratna Pustak Bhandar" 2019'
Bista, Dor Bahadur. People of [Link]:
Padma P. Devkota' New Delhi: Adarsha
Devkota, Laxmi Prasad. Muio ttio,tor. Tr.
Publication' 2018.
Fiennes, Sir Ranaulp h. House of snou,;
Anthologt of the Grecttest writing about Nepal'
Head of Zeus,2017 '
and Public Culture in post-1990
Hutt, Michael a eratyorrn on,u. eas. \!iryi!chonge
[Link]: Cambridge UP, 20 I 7'
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