CONTENTS:-
Section I: Conceptual AND THEORETICAL ISSUES:
1. Introduction / A.C. Sinha
2. Where is Home for an Indian Nepali Writer? / Michael Hutt
3. Ethnic Identity Crisis, History and Cultural Anthropology: Some Reflections / Pravesh Jung Golay
4. Possibilities of Cultural Communication: Identity and Nationality Across Cultures / Goutam Biswas
5. Rethinking Gorkha Identity: Outside the Imperium of Discourse, Hegemony and History / Bidhan Golay
6. Being and Belonging: A Study of the Indian Nepalis / Tapasya Thapa
Section II: Search FOR INDIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY:
7. Education, Institutions and Elites Building and Bounding Nepali Public Life in Early Twentieth Century India / Rhoderick Chalmers
8. The Urge to belong: An Identity in Waiting / Rajendra P. Dhakal
9. Identity Formation and Identity Maintenance: Nepalis in India / Ranju R. Dhamala
10. Nepalis in India: A Neglected Discourse / Vimal Khawas
11. Consolidating Nepali Identity: A Cultural Planning Perspective / Shrawan Acharya
Section III: REGIONAL IDENTITIES OF INDIAN NEPALIS:
12. Identity in Nepali Historical Novels from Northeast India / Teknarayan Upadhyaya
13. Nepali Settlement and Cattle-Rearing in India's Northeast / D. Sapkota
14. Mizoram Gorkhas: Issues and Problems / K.L. Pradhan
15. Nepalis in Meghalaya: Diaspora and Identity / Amena Passah
16. History of Nepali Settlement in Assam / Nira Devi
17. Gorkhas as Colliers: Labour Recruitment and Racial Discourse in the Coal Mines of Assam / Tejimala Gurung
Section IV: NEPALI SUB-CULTURES: YOUTHS, WOMEN, FOOD AND Medicine:
18. Indian Nepali youths and Identity Crisis / Anuradha Sharma
19. Trafficking of Nepali Women in India / Sharda Chhetri
20. Food and Identity: A Study Among the Nepalis of Sikkim and Darjeeling / Jyoti Prakash Tamang
21. Herbal Medicinal Culture of the Nepalis of Darjeeling and Sikkim / D.R. Chhetri
Section V: INDIA-NEPAL LINKAGE: HISTORY, LITERATURE AND PEOPLE:
22. Origin and Development of the Nepali Language / Madhav Pokharel
23. India-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship: Nature, Problems and the Question of Identity of Indian Nepalis / B.C. Upreti
24. Nepalis and Bangladeshis: A Comparative Study / D.B. Chhetry
25. Shared Destiny: Indians of Nepalese Origin (INO) and Nepalese of Indian Origin (NIO) / A.C. Sinha
26. The Last World so Far / T.B. Subba
