Agriculture and Environment in the Eastern Nepal Himalayas

Minority Language Politics in Nepal and the Himalayas

While Nepal is constitutionally recognised as a ‘multilingual’ nation, scholars, citizens and the government still disagree about the number of languages spoken within its borders. Some argue that this lack of accord is an indication of a profound institutional ignorance concerning the ethnolinguistic tapestry of the country, and go on to criticise the government for the perceived dearth of lin...

Diphtheria in eastern Nepal.

LHP had approximately 713,000 personyears of enrollment from 1993 to 1997. We identified 104 members with a C. difficile diagnosis on a claims record during this period. This group includes most of the patients in our original study. Most patients (62.5%) were identified exclusively from inpatient records; another 15.4% had both an inpatient and an outpatient record with a C. difficile diagnosi...

Agriculture and the Environment

Thyroid dysfunction in eastern Nepal.

Nepal lies in an area of endemic iodine deficiency. Thyroid dysfunction, along with a higher than average prevalence of goiter, is a major public health problem among the local population. The present study was undertaken to investigate the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among the hill and terai (low land) castes of eastern Nepal that attended the thyroid clinic at the BP Koirala Institute o...

Integrating ethnobiological knowledge into biodiversity conservation in the Eastern Himalayas

Biocultural knowledge provides valuable insight into ecological processes, and can guide conservation practitioners in local contexts. In many regions, however, such knowledge is underutilized due to its often-fragmented record in disparate sources. In this article, we review and apply ethnobiological knowledge to biodiversity conservation in the Eastern Himalayas. Using Sikkim, India as a case...