Demoting Vishnu: Ritual, Politics, And The Unraveling Of Nepal's Hindu Monarchy

This book examines how public ritual once placed kings at the privileged apex of Nepal's government, and how in the 21st century those same rituals stopped serving the king and turned instead to authorize party-based politicians. Ritual upheaval undermined the institutional logic of monarchy, and demonstrated that kingship was contingent/dispensable--

• | Author: Anne T. Mocko
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0190275227
• | ISBN-13: 9780190275228