Hutt, M (ed), 1994, Nepal in the Nineties: Versions of the past, visions of the future. Oxford University Press, Delhi, India.
This book contains eight essays that directly or indirectly, with one exception, deal with the politics (broadly defined) of Nepal during the late Panchyat era, the Jana Andolan of 1990, and the first two years of multiparty democracy. Richard Burghart's opening essay is on the political culture fostered by the panchayat regime. Burghart claims that its project of nation-building revolved around the Nepali language and Hindu kingship. For the legitimation of the latter, the nation itself also had to be Hindu. The official predominance of the Nepali language and the Hindu nation wereensured through census operations. He argues that Hindu kingship enabled "Nepal to claim a source of authority that was uniquely Nepalese" and provided legitimation of "a vision of panchayat democracy as civil society".
