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The Social Science Baha was set up in January 2002 to foster and facilitate the development of the study of the social sciences in Nepal. In keeping with its stated objective, the Baha has focused mainly in the following four activities:
Social Science Library
The Baha’s major priority is the development of a well-stocked and efficiently managed social science library. The library has so far collected 20,000 titles and also provides users with access to online resources.
Lectures, conferences, etc
The Baha hosts The Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture once a year, inviting prominent academics to deliver a lecture in honour of the late historian. As part of the Social Science Baha Lecture Series, the Baha also provides a forum to academic personalities to interact with their colleagues in a standard lecture format. The Baha also organises conferences, roundtables and other interactions of an academic nature.
Publications
The Baha publishes books and occasional and working papers as a means to make available scholarly works that may not ordinarily be accessible to the general reader.
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| News & Announcements |
New publicationRegionalism and National Unity in Nepal
by Frederick H. Gaige with an Introduction by Arjun Guneratne
Regionalism and National Unity in Nepal is Frederick H. Gaige’s acclaimed study of the Tarai and the Nepali state’s misdirected and ineffectual attempts at integrating the region into the national mainstream. The theme of the book remains as relevant three decades later, especially at a time when the very essence of Nepali nationalism is being questioned and new forms of co-existence are being negotiated. The introduction by Arjun Guneratne updates the reader on the social and political context in which the book is being re-issued besides highlighting some of the more pertinent issues now at stake in the Tarai, indications of which are scattered throughout Gaige’s book.
Thirty-four years after it was first published, Frederick Gaige’s Regionalism and National Unity in Nepal remains the single best introduction to the socio-political context of Tarai politics.
—From the Introduction by Arjun Guneratne, author of Many Tongues, One People:
The Making of Tharu Identity in Nepal
Praise for the first edition
With its facts and figures, … [this book] will provide useful background information to people interested in the economics of the tarai, as well as Nepalese politics.
—Patricia Caplan, Journal of Asian Studies
The book is a major contribution to our knowledge of Nepal.
—Werner Levi, Pacific Affairs
Gaige’s book … [is] a fine case study of a small developing country which is experiencing tensions between two of its major regional groups.
—Merrill R. Goodall, The American Political Science Review
Readers from outside Nepal can also order the book online at
http://himalbooks.com/shop/products/Regionalism-and-National-Unity-in-Nepal.html « Back
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The Social Science Baha was set up in January 2002 to foster and facilitate the development of the study of the social sciences in Nepal. 
