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This chapter argues that it can be instructive to compare sociopolitical developments in Bhutan with those in its close neighbour, Nepal, over the past three or four decades, and draws a number of parallels between them. It also argues for a more complex and nuanced approach to contemporary Bhutanese affairs on the part of foreign scholars.
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Notes
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‘Graduate’s [sic] orientation begins tomorrow’ Kuensel 28 September 2013. http://www.kuenselonline.com/graduates-orientation-begins-tomorrow/#.U8psZyhCesE, accessed 19 July 2014.
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See European Bulletin of Himalayan Research No. 43 (Autumn/Winter 2013), which is a special issue on ‘The Bhutanese Refugee Resettlement Experience’.
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Priess, Danielle, ‘Bhutanese Refugees Are Killing Themselves at an Astonishing Rate’ The Atlantic, Boston, 13 April 2013. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/bhutanese-refugees-are-killing-themselves-at-an-astonishing-rate/274959/. Accessed 19 July 2014.
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I say ‘wrongly’ not only because I find this term objectionable but also because a substantial portion of the Nepali Bhutanese population still remains within Bhutan .
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Hutt, M. (2017). Sociocultural and Political Change in Bhutan Since the 1980s: Reflections from a Distance. In: Schmidt, J. (eds) Development Challenges in Bhutan. Contemporary South Asian Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47925-5_2
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