Of People and Protest: Spiritual Resistance in Newar Hymns

The spiritual and the political at times merge together in formation of powerful voice protest quest social harmony. This is also seen Newari cultural landscape. hymns present that collective imagination poetically transcends beyond earthly domain control authority structures, revolting against prevalent order. paper studies two historical “Shitala Maju” “Bijaya Laxmi” from perspective resistance. When are still sung as integral performance life settlements analysed to examine nature their quest, hymns, form devotional poetry, emerge a sharp critique then power structure. argues raise people atrocities both state and/or King resistance its inner core though such poems externally display devotion primary ethos.