39 Autumn-Winter 2011 EBHR EUROPEAN BULLETIN OF HIMALAYAN RESEARCH

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1 39 Autumn-Winter 2011 EBHR EUROPEAN BULLETIN OF HIMALAYAN RESEARCH

2 European Bulletin of Himalayan Research The European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR) was founded by the late Richard Burghart in It is the result of a partnership between France (CNRS), Germany (South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg) and the United Kingdom (School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS]). From 2010 to 2014, the Editorial Board is based in the UK and comprises Michael Hutt (SOAS, Managing Editor), Ben Campbell (University of Durham), Ian Harper (University of Edinburgh), Sondra Hausner (University of Oxford), Sara Shneiderman (University of Cambridge) and Mark Turin (University of Cambridge, book reviews editor). The EBHR s contributing editors are Martijn van Beek (University of Aarhus) Tone Bleie (University of Tromso) Pascale Dollfus (CNRS, Paris) Martin Gaenszle (University of Vienna) David Gellner (University of Oxford) Ingemar Grandin (Linkoping University) Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (CNRS, Paris) Chiara Letizia (University of Milano-Bicocca) Fiona McConnell (University of Newcastle) Axel Michaels (University of Heidelberg) Matthew Nelson (SOAS) Judi Pettigrew (University of Limerick) Philippe Ramirez (CNRS, Paris) Anne de Sales (CNRS, Paris) Surya Subedi (University of Leeds) Mark Watson (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh) Astrid Zotter (University of Heidelberg) The following address should be used for correspondence: Michael Hutt School of Oriental and African Studies Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG mh8@soas.ac.uk For subscription details and back issues (>3 years) The EBHR is published from Kathmandu in collaboration with Social Science Baha (

3 INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Proposals and manuscripts should be sent to the Managing Editor, Michael Hutt via . All articles submitted are subject to a process of peer review. Book reviews should be sent to the book reviews editor, Mark Turin (mt10003@cam.ac.uk). Similarly, Mark Turin may be contacted about books for review and will advise where they should be sent. Articles should be written in English and should not exceed 10,000 words in length, including footnotes and references. When preparing your manuscript for submission to the EBHR, please observe the following conventions. Spelling and punctuation Use British English spellings, e.g. colour, supervised. Use single quotation marks throughout, except for quotes within quotes, which should take double quotation marks. Do not use scare quotes. Reported speech and quotes from written sources should be given in plain text within single quotation marks. Quotations extending to more than 40 words should be in a separate indented paragraph. The titles of books and the names of newspapers and journals should be given in italics with initial capitals. References should not be given in footnotes, which should be used sparingly to provide supplementary information. Diacritical marks may be employed for the transliteration of terms from Himalayan languages, but should be used correctly and consistently. Personal and place names should not take diacritical marks. References References in the body of the text should use the Harvard system, e.g. (Hacchethu 1997: 17) with a space after the colon and no comma between author and date; where there is more than one reference listed, put commas between them, not semi-colons. When listing references at the end of articles, give the surname of the author followed by initials, e.g. Malla, K.P. not Malla, Kamal Prakash. Give the main title of a book with capital letters, but use lower case in the sub-title after an initial capital. Use lower case after an initial capital for the title of an article or book chapter. References should be given as follows: [Monographs] Bennett, L Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and symbolic roles of high-caste women in Nepal. New York: Columbia University Press. [Chapters in books] Ishii, H Caste and kinship in a Newar village. In Contested Hierarchies: A collaborative ethnography of caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, edited by David N. Gellner and Declan Quigley, pp Oxford: Clarendon. [Journal articles] Scheppele, K.L Aspirational and adversive constitutionalism: the case for studying crossconstitutional influence through negative models. International Journal of Constitutional Law 1(2): We welcome reports on seminars and conferences. For advertising rates please contact the editors. EBHR, Michael Hutt School of Oriental and African Studies Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK. mh8@soas.ac.uk EBHR SOAS, LONDON CNRS, PARIS SAI, HEIDELBERG ISSN

4 3 EBHR 39 Autumn-Winter 2011 ARTICLES An Unpublished Account of Kinnauri Folklore 9 Sur Das, introduced by Arik Moran Keeping the Hill Tribes at Bay: A critique from India s Northeast 41 of James C. Scott s paradigm of state evasion Jelle Wouters Shaping Secularism in Nepal 66 Chiara Letizia LECTURE Time, Identity and Historical Change in the Hills of Nepal 106 (Ninth Annual Lecture of the Britain-Nepal Academic Council) Anne de Sales REPORTS The Catalogue of the Hodgson Collection in the British Library 128 John Whelpton and Michael Hutt Report on Changing Dynamics of Nepali Society and Politics, 144 Kathmandu, August, 2011 Khem Shreesh INTERVIEW Women, Law and Democracy in Nepal: An interview with 148 Sapana Pradhan-Malla Gérard Toffin and Shova Shakya OBITUARIES Richard Keith Sprigg ( ) 166 Heleen Plaisier Michel Georges Francois Peissel ( ) 169 Roger Croston

5 4 EBHR-39 BOOK REVIEWS Daniele Berti and Gilles Tarabout (eds): Territory, Soil and 176 Society in South Asia David N. Gellner Hermann Kreutzmann (ed): Karakoram in Transition: Culture, 180 development and ecology in the Hunza valley Davide Torri Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (ed.): Nature, Culture and 183 Religion at the Crossroads of Asia Nayanika Mathur Martin Moir: Not Exactly Shangri-la 185 Michael Hutt Nishchal Nath Pandey: New Nepal: The Fault Lines 187 Milly Joshi Devendra Raj Pandey: Looking at Development and 192 Donors: Essays from Nepal Jeevan Raj Sharma Gérard Toffin: La Fête Spectacle. Théâtre et rite au Népal 195 Arik Moran Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler (eds.): Himalayan Languages and 200 Linguistics: Studies in phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax Nathan Hill ENDPIECE Me at the Beginning of Life 208 Jhamak Ghimire