Governing the Hills

摘要: 1 The imaginary waiting room of history refers to Dipesh Chakrabarty’s famous phrase in Provincializing Europe (2000). For a recent analysis of the shifting logic of the India nation-state under the Incredible India! brand see (Kaur, 2012). 2 The imagination of Nepal as a “Federal Democratic Republic” is taken directly out of the current interim constitution. For descriptions of recent developments in relation to Nepal’s refashioning in this direction see eg (International Crisis Group, 2008, 2011; BG Shrestha, 2012)