Peasants and Workers in Nepal

The fieldwork on which this collection of essays on ‘peasants and workers in Nepal’ is based was undertaken in the mid-1970s, by an international team associated with the Overseas Development Group at the University of East Anglia. The fieldwork also gave rise to several other publications, including ‘Nepal in Crisis’ and ‘The Struggle for Basic Needs in Nepal’ (both now re-published by Adroit Publishers), by the same authors. In this collection, however, an attempt was made to look in more detail at specific social groups, their position within the broader political economy of Nepal and their characteristics.