Nepal: New Horizons?To most people in the developed world, Nepal is an unspoilt Shangri-La of spectacular scenery and remote picturesque villages. This book goes behind the glossy tourist brochures to examine the reality of a complex and rapidly changing society. Nepal: New Horizons? examines the changes in people's attitudes to the traditional monarchy and rigid social structures, and describes the reality of life in a society which is undergoing a major change as a result of contact with Western influences - particularly tourism. |
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ACAP adult literacy agricultural amchi Annapurna Annemarie Papatheofilou apples Badi women Bhaktapur Bhutan Bhutanese Brahmin Buddhist camps caste cent centre chautara child club country's courtyard crops culture Damber Kumari debt deforestation democracy district earn ECCA environmental ethnic groups ethnic Nepalis farmers forest fuel wood girls growing Gurkha Gurung healers health post high mountains Himalaya Hindu household houses human rights income increasing Indian irrigation Jeremy Hartley/Oxfam kamaiya Kathmandu Valley King land less Lhotshampas literacy classes live lodges Lwang Malyon/Oxfam Marpha middle hills Nepal Nepali Congress Newar organisations Oxfam Panchayat Pokhara police population porters primary health problems programme prostitution raise awareness Ram Bahadur Ramesh Rana RECPHEC refugees religious rice road rural Nepalis Soma Namgyal terai Thakali Thamel Tharu Tibetan tourist traditional trekkers trekking vegetables VHWs Village health workers visitors एड्स एड्सको गर्ने सेतो
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Page 10 - Nepal has continuously been unable to produce sufficient food to meet the needs of its people.
Page 39 - Nepal signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990 and the new government's Constitution of the same year re-emphasised the prohibition of any form of slavery.
Page 51 - The organisation, a project of the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation, was established in 1986 to find ways of development which would not damage natural and cultural integrity. Tor 15 years, the Trust had a 'preserve' mentality, with fencing and army guards to preserve and protect the resource from encroachers.