What is not in a name? Toponymic ambivalence, identity, and symbolic resistance in the Nepali flatlands by Darshan Karki, Miriam Wenner

“…Analyzing the names of the Nepali flatlands, Tarai and Madhes with a focus on the latter, it shows how ambivalent meanings attached to the toponyms became instrumental in symbolic resistance against an exclusionary idea of the Nepali nation and the struggle for belonging to it. …”
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