Qualifications

• PhD in Sociology from University of Georgia , in 2010
• M.A. from University of Georgia , in 2006

Recent Publications

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2019. Crossing the Caste and Ethnic Boundaries: Love and Intermarriage between Madhesi Men and Pahadi Women in Southern Nepal. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [SAMAJ]. http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/5802: 1-19

• Basnet, Chudamani, and A.S. Sandhya. 2019. Nepali Domestic Workers in New Delhi: Strategies and Agency. Dhaulagiri journal of sociology and anthropology 13:49-57.

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2019. The Federal Socialist Forum: An Incipient Middle Caste Politics in Nepal? Studies in Nepali History & Society 24(2): 355–80.

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2018. “Ke Hindu dharma bahunbadko shrot ho? Dor Bahadur Bista ko fatalism and development pacchis barsh pachhi punaraddhyayan garda [Is Hinduism the source of Brahmanism? Rereading DB Bista’s Fatalism and Development after 25 years]”. Samaj Addhyaan (13):  121-140

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2018. "Religion or Political Institutions? Revisiting D.B. Bista’s Fatalism and Development Thesis after 25 Years" Studies in Nepali History and Society 23(1): 33-58 ISSN: 1025-5109

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2017. "Blurred Boundaries: Fact and Fiction in Sotala." Studies in Nepali History and Society 22(1): 157-178.

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2016. "Ethnic Politics and Religion among Janajatis in an Eastern Tarai Town.” Studies Nepali History and Society 21(2): 283–304.

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2015. "Inter-caste Relations and Intermarriage among Non-Dalit Hill Castes in Eastern Nepal." Contribution to Nepalese Studies 42(1):167-186

• Rahut, Dil Bahadur, Akhter Ali, Menale Kassie, Paswel P. Marenya, and Chudamani Basnet. 2014. "Rural Livelihood Diversification Strategies in Nepal." Poverty & Public Policy 6:259-281

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2012. “Civil society imagination in Nepal’s Second People’s Movement.” Pp. 136-151 in Alternative Voices of Anthropology. Edited by Ajit K. Danda and Rajat K. Das. New Delhi: Indian Anthropological Society

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2012. Three Faces of Civil Society in Nepal. New Angle 2(1): 13-22

• Basnet, Chudamani. 2010. Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Rajneesh Movement in Nepal. Studies in Nepali History and Society ,15 (1): 3-25.

Research Interests

• Political sociology
• Cultural Sociology
• Structured Inequality
• Historical sociology