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Ms Mona Chettri

MA Development Studies (New South Wales)

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Mona Chettri
Name:
Ms Mona Chettri
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Thesis title:
Identity Politics in the Eastern Himalayas
Year of Study:
3
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PhD Research

Having completed my Masters in Development Studies from the University of New South Wales, Sydney I am presently pursuing my Ph.D titled ‘ Identity Politics in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland’. The present research is a comparative study on the political articulation of the Nepali ethnic group in the three Himalayan areas of Sikkim, Darjeeling and eastern Nepal. The comparative study reveals the complexity of ethnicity and ethnic politics and the symbiotic relationship between ethnicity and politics as well as the different social, political and economic factors that contribute to the construction of identities in contemporary South Asia.

My research interests are socio-politico movements, development discourse in South Asia, borderland cultures and diasporic studies.

PhD Conferences

  • ‘Transformation and Crisis in Frontier City-The Case of Siliguri’, Annual Conference on South
    Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 20-23 October 2011.
  • ‘Ethnicity and Political Contour of Naya Nepal- A Case Study of the Regional Politics in
    Eastern Nepal’, International Conference on Changing Dynamics in Nepali Society and Politics,
    Kathmandu, Nepal, 17-19th August 2011.
  • ‘Evolution of an Identity-The Political Re-definition of the Gorkhas of the Darjeeling Hills’,
    Britain-Nepal Academic Council, Cambridge University, 20-21st April 2011.
  • ‘The Politics of Cultural Revivalism in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland’, Britain-Nepal
    Academic Council, University of Durham, 19th April 2010.
  • ‘Expressing Otherness through the Self - Dress Code and Cultural Propaganda in the Darjeeling
    Hills’, SOAS Research Students Society Conference, London, 30-31st March 2010.