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Notes
1. Dor Bahadur Bista, Fatalism and Development: Nepal's Struggle for Modernization (Patna: Orient Longman Ltd, 1991).
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., p. 97.
4. Saul Weiner, ‘“Source Force” and the Nepal Medical Profession’, in Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 29, no. 5 (1989), p. 672.
5. Translation from an interview, 6 April 2014, Bhagwana, Parsa, Nepal.
6. S. Karki, ‘Education and Employment: Transitional Experiences in Nepal’, unpublished DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 2014, p. 262.
7. Translation from an interview, 9 August 2006, Bhaktapur, Nepal.
8. Gananath Obeyesekere, Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), p. 148.