Can untouchability be eradicated in Nepal?

The declaration of an untouchability-free nation was a blatant lie on the part of the new ruling elites.

Academic and policy researchers, including Western anthropologists, have shown little interest in the lives and problems of the Nepali Dalit community. The neglect is such that, to this day, American professor Mary Cameron’s On the Edge of the Auspicious — published in 1998 and based on her field research in Bajhang District in the 1980s—remains the only notable monograph on the “untouchables”.