STATE REPRESSION AND THE 2013 NEPALESE ELECTION BY PETER TOBIN

BAADARKO HAATMAA NARIWAL 

(‘A coconut in a monkey’s hand’ – Nepalese proverb)

STATE REPRESSION AND
THE 2013 NEPALESE ELECTION

“What’s more, you can’t in good faith give the nobles what they want without doing harm to others; but you can with the people. Because the people’s aspirations are more honourable than those of the nobles: the nobles want to oppress the