Terror in a Maoist Model village, mid-western Nepal

摘要

This paper is based on observations made in 2005 in a village in mid-western Nepal which was considered to be a Maoist bastion and which had been declared a Model village by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). It focuses on the climate of terror, which characterised the locality at that time, and explores some of the mechanisms whereby people were forced to participate in the revolution as well as the strategies they used for distancing themselves.