Body Politics in Beauty Pageants: A Study of Miss Nepal Discourse

The paper attempts to explore how the female body is often controlled by power politics, which discussed with reference Miss Nepal beauty pageant. pageant being organized since 1994 has drawn not only ideological and ethical debate, but it also generated street demonstrations including violent confrontations then. Though women’s wings of various politico-cultural organizations tried stop organizing protest movements, multiple forms regional community-based pageants are proliferating in Nepal. This study primarily tries observe politics that exist contests from perspective indigenous aesthetics. Secondly, analyzes tied name Gramscian notion ‘hegemony’ Ngugi wa Thiongo’s ‘decolonizing mind’. Finally, as aesthetics an extensive domain, this recommends some ways deal issues, especially Newa: women