THE STRUGGLE FOR FULL CITIZENSHIP FOR DALITS IN NEPAL: APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES OF DALIT ACTIVISTS
THE STRUGGLE FOR FULL CITIZENSHIP FOR DALITS IN NEPAL: APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES OF DALIT ACTIVISTS
By Sambriddhi Kharel, University of Pittsburgh
Drawing insights from in-depth interviews and secondary sources, Sambriddhi Kharel in this paper examines the struggle for full citizenship through the tactics used by Daht activists in Nepal. Dalit activists based in political parties tend to privilege the nation-state and its bounded sovereignty as the strategic and ultimate terrain upon which the struggle for full Dalit inclusion is fought, while Dalit advocates based in non-governmental organizations appeal primarily to international human rights and the claims to universal human dignity. The important political moment of People’s Movement of April 2006 brought these two groups together to fight locally for full citizenship rights.
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Source: HIMALAYA, VOLUME XXVlI NUMBERS: 1&2, 2007 (Date of publication: June 2009), pages: 55-69.