Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation

· South Asia in the Social Sciences Boek 12 · Cambridge University Press
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The recent socio-political changes in Nepal have brought assimilationist notions of Nepali nationalism under a tight scrutiny and drawn attention to more plural, inclusive, and diverse notions of Nepaliness. However, both assimilationist and pluralist visions continue to remain normative in their approach, and often posit ethnic and national identity in opposition to each other. Drawing on the everyday practices in the two schools, this book illustrates that social actors in minority language education did not necessarily select between minority identity and national identity, but instead made simultaneous claims to more than one social identity by discursively positioning 'ethnic identity' as 'national identity'. It builds on the notion of 'simultaneity' to illustrate that it is through the 'unresolved co-presences' of apparently contradictory ways that people maintain their multi-layered identities. By arguing for an analytical necessity to adopt relational approach, it aims to complicate the neat compartmentalisation of identities.

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Uma Pradhan is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on power-laden dimensions of education and examines the interconnection between state, society and schooling. Her research has been published in journals such as Education and Ethnography, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

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