The ethnonational capture of state

The Madheshis are in a no-win situation under the present political dispensation.

While comparing the omnipotent ruler of imperial France with the “Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States,” the early 19th-century French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville observed : “The French, under the old monarchy, held as a given that the king could do no wrong…” Americans, Tocqueville concluded, held the same opinion about the will of the majority—it could do no wrong.