Posted by: Krom June 15, 2009
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@ bhikari
The medieval state of Nepal, as I choose to define it, revolved solely on two loci of competing political entities in the post medieval Nepal, namely the then Gorkha state which was confined by the might of Lamjung in west, and the comparatively prosperous fiefdom of Nepal (Kantipur, Yela and Khapa).
Moreover, to subject human rationality and logicality to the raw darwinian ethos of "survival of the fittest"would be foolish. If nature's selectivism is to be law in the human domain where contrasting notion of human rights, sympathy and the mere right to exist have formed, then the survival of most nations of the world, whose mere existence is dependent on foreign aid and the belief which was established by the Westphalian Peace Treaty that followed the Bourbon struggles in Renaissance Europe, would be in jeopardy. I ask from whence comes this "...dialectical way that supports the survival of the fittest.."hypothesis, clearly an extract from the more crude realisties of human evolution?
Now moving over to the two competing forces established in Nepal in the 1600s - The question here is not the Bahunbad of Mr. Suwa's piece, neither is it your "survival of the fittest" hypothesis. The realities of modern Nepal are such that the linear definition of history and the propaganda pubished and spread after the Newar defeat in the Gorkha-Newar war, led to not only a geographic conquest of Nepal but transformation of ethnic multi-cultural nature of Nepal itself. "Char Jat Chattis Barna ko Phulbari" is a hypocritical statement of the first Khas king Prithvi Shah where the hypocrisy seems to be very ironic. On the one hand is this statement by the then conqueror of a Nepalese identity based on multicultural existence, while on the other hand the laws that were superimposed on the Newa laws, a derivative of the monastic way of life influenced by Hinduism from the south, seem to undermine the very "Char Jat Chattis Barnako Phulbari" that the Khas proclaimed to uphold. A conscious attempt was made to wipe out the very fabric of this "Phulbari" by the Khas (Khe:) starting with the undermining of Nepal Bhasa, a Tibeto-Burmese language, and the sole linkage between the Newars within the valley who racially themselves diverse.
The medieval state of Nepal, as I choose to define it, revolved solely on two loci of competing political entities in the post medieval Nepal, namely the then Gorkha state which was confined by the might of Lamjung in west, and the comparatively prosperous fiefdom of Nepal (Kantipur, Yela and Khapa).
Moreover, to subject human rationality and logicality to the raw darwinian ethos of "survival of the fittest"would be foolish. If nature's selectivism is to be law in the human domain where contrasting notion of human rights, sympathy and the mere right to exist have formed, then the survival of most nations of the world, whose mere existence is dependent on foreign aid and the belief which was established by the Westphalian Peace Treaty that followed the Bourbon struggles in Renaissance Europe, would be in jeopardy. I ask from whence comes this "...dialectical way that supports the survival of the fittest.."hypothesis, clearly an extract from the more crude realisties of human evolution?
Now moving over to the two competing forces established in Nepal in the 1600s - The question here is not the Bahunbad of Mr. Suwa's piece, neither is it your "survival of the fittest" hypothesis. The realities of modern Nepal are such that the linear definition of history and the propaganda pubished and spread after the Newar defeat in the Gorkha-Newar war, led to not only a geographic conquest of Nepal but transformation of ethnic multi-cultural nature of Nepal itself. "Char Jat Chattis Barna ko Phulbari" is a hypocritical statement of the first Khas king Prithvi Shah where the hypocrisy seems to be very ironic. On the one hand is this statement by the then conqueror of a Nepalese identity based on multicultural existence, while on the other hand the laws that were superimposed on the Newa laws, a derivative of the monastic way of life influenced by Hinduism from the south, seem to undermine the very "Char Jat Chattis Barnako Phulbari" that the Khas proclaimed to uphold. A conscious attempt was made to wipe out the very fabric of this "Phulbari" by the Khas (Khe:) starting with the undermining of Nepal Bhasa, a Tibeto-Burmese language, and the sole linkage between the Newars within the valley who racially themselves diverse.