Simultaneous Identities: Language, education and the Nepali nation, by Uma Pradhan

As a multilingual and multi-ethnic country undergoing a series of political, social and cultural overhauls over the last decades, Nepal is faced with issues regarding language in education that has always been an area of contention for educators, policymakers, politicians, activists and many other key figures. Because of the symbolic power of language that operates in relation to the politics of identity (individual, ethnic and national) and to capital accumulation in/for the local-global mar...