Fluid Boundaries: Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal Book

	List of Maps and Tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Thakali Again for the Very First Time	1
	Meeting at the Crossroads	1
	Searching for Culture in the Past	3
	Imagining Thakali	5
	Borderlands	7
	Tourists in Their Own Land	9
	Reclaiming Culture	12
	Agency/Action/Practice	13
	Fluid Boundaries	17
2	Drawing Lines: On Constructing and Contesting Boundaries	22
	The Terms of Boundary Disputes	23
	Thak Khola	24
	The Term Thakali	26
	Contesting Boundaries	27
	Membership and Status, Groups, and Categories	31
	Among the Thaksatsae Thakali: Ties That Bind, Lines That Divide	35
	Cutting Across Descent	37
	Khuwale and Thak Khole	40
	Summary: Criss-Crossing Boundaries	43
3	Forging Histories	44
	Historical Narrative(s)	45
	Thakali Narratives of the Past	47
	Scholarship and the Reconstruction of the Past	51
	The Formation of the Gurkhali State	55
	The Effects of Nation Building	69
	Post-Salt Monopoly Adaptations	72
	Enter the Anthropologists, Surmising	75
4	Separation and Integration: Community and Contestation	77
	Moving On	77
	Samaj	84
	Integration and Solidarity/Competition and Cooperation	87
	Dhikur: Rotating Credit	90
	Politics	104
5	Ritual Landscapes	107
	Eclectic Ritual Pluralism	109
	Ancestor Rituals: "We Don't Have Any Gods"	113
	Mortuary Rites	117
	Marriages: Khimi Tapne	120
	Torongla	124
	Subclan Rites: Khimi Ramden	125
	Subclan Rites: Jho Khane	134
	Lha Phewa and Thakali Clans	135
	Migration and Descent Group Rituals	136
6	Codifying Culture	138
	Codification and Contestation	138
	Forming a National Samaj	141
	Institutionalizing Contestation	143
	A New Social Order	153
	Codified Culture	156
	Initial Responses to the Formation of the Thakali Sewa Samiti	158
	The Integration of the Khuwale	159
	Nationally Drawn Boundaries Locally Imposed	161
	Ongoing Changes	163
7	Constructing Thakali	167
	First Contacts, First Constructs	169
	Revisionist Constructions	175
	Thakali Reconstructed	178
8	Beyond Sanskritization	185
	Narijhowa	185
	Speaking of Thakali	188
	On Boundaries	189
	On Boundary Making	195
	Beyond Sanskritization	197
9	Old Artificers in a New Smithy	204
	Notes	219
	Glossary	255
	Works Cited	261
	Index	283