Nepali politics and history
Open access publications
‘Drafting the Nepal constitution, 1990’ Asian Survey 31.11 (1991): 1020-1039. https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/6039/
‘Nepal’s uncertain future’, BBC World News website, posted 5 June 2001, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1372004.stm
‘Nepali democracy: a guide to the ruins’. Unpublished seminar paper, 9 June 2003. pdf here
‘Nepal and Bhutan in 2004. Two kings, two futures’ Asian Survey 45.1 (2005): 83-7. https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/1801/
‘Nepal and Bhutan in 2005. Monarchy and democracy: can they co-exist?’ Asian Survey 46.1 (2006): 120-4. https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/6042/
‘Things that should not be said: censorship and self-censorship in the Nepali press media, 2001-2’ The Journal of Asian Studies 65 (2006): 361-92. https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/3921/
‘Reading Nepali Maoist memoirs’ Studies in Nepali History and Society 17.1 (2012): 107-142. https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14544/ OR https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/9550745.pdf
‘The royal palace massacre, conspiracy theories and Nepali street literature’ in Political Change and Public Culture in post-1990 Nepal edited by Hutt and Onta, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 39-55. https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23601/
‘The changing face of Nepal.’ Current History, April 2020: 141-5. https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33076/
‘Framing Covid-19 in Nepal’ (SOAS blog) https://www.soas.ac.uk/blogs/study/framing-covid-19-nepal/
‘Fifth time lucky? Deuba’s last chance for a legacy in Nepal’. East Asia Forum 11 September 2021
Books
ed. Nepal in the Nineties: Versions of the Past, Visions of the Future. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994.
ed. Himalayan ‘People’s War’: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion. London: Christopher Hurst and Co., 2004
ed. with Pratyoush Onta. Political Change and Public Culture in post-1990 Nepal. Cambridge University Press, 2017. access the e-book or order print copy here
Other articles and book chapters
‘The blowing of the April wind: writers and democracy in Nepal’ Index on Censorship 19.8 (1990): 5-9.
‘Nepal: the pale dawn of democracy’ Index on Censorship 20.7 (1991): 18-19, 26.
‘Monarchy, Maoism and democracy in Nepal’ Journal of Conflict, Security & Development 1.2 (2000): 93-101.
‘King Gyanendra’s coup and its implications for Nepal’s political future’ The Brown Journal of World Affairs XII.1 (2005): 111-23.
‘A Nepalese triangle: monarchy, Maoists and political parties’ Asian Affairs XXXVIII.1 (March 2007): 12-22
‘Singing the New Nepal’ Nations and Nationalism 18.2 (2012): 306-325.
‘The disappearance and reappearance of Yogmaya: recovering a Nepali revolutionary icon’ Contemporary South Asia 21.4 (2013): 382-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2013.856380
‘The last Himalayan monarchies’ in Toffin, Gérard and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (eds) Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the politics of the self. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2014, pp. 419-43.
‘Ganga Bahadur’s books: landmark proletarian novels and the Nepali communist movement.’ Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 17.3 (2016): 357-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2016.1217630. Accepted text version at https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23080/