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PREFACE
Nepal
still remains an unknown factor in the arena of the world. It lies
as yet in a state of medieval squalor and ignorance and the impact
of medievalism has been very heavy, too heavy to allow it to shake
of its environmental backwardness. Perhaps it will take years of
hard work and perseverance and the establishment of a truly
democratic government to inspire and guide the same in order to put
it on a path of real progress and modernization .For the present
Nepal faces a problem as acute as that of any other country steeped
in darkness with little or no prospect of early redemption.
“Whither Nepal” is an attempt to present the problem of Nepalese
democracy in national and international perspective for readers both
in Nepal and outside, more for the latter. Nepal today occupies a
place of strategic importance and on it focused the attention of the
Imperialist section of the world powers. Nepalese democracy does not
merely concern the people of Nepal. In many fight against the
autocracy they are bound to encounter opposition from external
proppers of reaction. This volume sets in detail the forces in
action arraigned as well in battle and the prospects in a conflict
not confined to Nepalese border that will surely send its
repercussions to the course of the struggle and its character.
The five chapters of the beginning provide a background of the
problem, as it existed till yesterday under the Rana family. The
sixth styled “Postscript” delineates the events leading to the
transfer of power from the Ranas to King Tribhuvan and the
establishment and working from the Ranas to King Tribhuvan and the
establishment and working of the so-called interim popular
government under his aegis. Next, two chapters show the way out of
the difficult and complex impasse and Nepal’s relation with India as
it comes to be shaped in the new conditions of the changes effected
mainly through the latter’s moral and diplomatic assistance. The
last, which sums up the main currents of events and the trends
arising out of their movements, gives the title of the book.
The character of the Nepalese democratic struggle which is basically
popular in relation to class forces that have come to play an
important part in the fight against medieval autocracy.
The idea in writing such a
book at the moment is prompted by a desire to draw a correct
analysis of the problem and a solution in the light of the same for
guidance. The readers will also get an answer in this volume to many
such queries, as for example, why Nepal remains as yet backward, why
the democratic movement has not yet out passed at the first shot of
diplomatic pressure from Delhi, and it fell like a house of cards
more due to mutual bickering and strife within the Ruling
family.
There
is nothing like a claim of an unfailing way in this humble endeavor
of dealing with a new and complex problem just suggested. It is
possible that the analysis drawn herewith is wrong. It is equally
true that the findings and the solution offered on that basis hold
little ground if the premises are wrong. But the readers are
requested to go through the subject matter of the book with a little
condescension and the author as well hopes to be excused for the
vein that the whole thing has been undertaken and attempted not
without certain amount of hesitation as to the shortcomings of the
treatise now brought out.
And
lastly if the book succeeds in attracting sympathetic notice of the
readers for whom the work is intended the author will feel immensely
gratified.
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