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Chudamani Basnet

Assistant Professor (SG)
PhD (University of Georgia, 2010)

Contact Details

cbasnet(at)soc.sau.ac.in
South Asian University ,Rajpur Rd, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110068
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Chudamani Basnet is an assistant professor (SG) in the Department of Sociology at South Asian University. He has taught social stratification, Qualitative Research, Social Statistics and Civil Society. He has published in the fields of caste, ethnicity, labour market, social movements and civil society. His works have appeared in Studies in Nepali History and Society, South Asia Research, and SAMAJ. He is currently a member of the editorial committees of Samaj Adhyayan (in Nepali) and South Asia Research.

Qualifications

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

Research Interests

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

Recent Publications

  • Basnet, Chudamani. 2022. Reflexivity and Field Research Experience During Nepal’s Political Transition. Studies in Nepali History & Society 27(1):131-50.
  • Basnet, Chudamani. 2022. Citizens’ Movement for Democracy and Peace: Mass Mobilisation in Nepal’s People’s Movement Ii. South Asia Research 42(2):249-65.
  • Basnet, Chudamani. 2021. Middle Castes against Hill High Caste Political Domination in Nepal: Can Indian Experience Be a Lesson? Dhaulagiri journal of sociology and anthropology 15:46-55.
  • Basnet, Chudamani. 2021. Debating Civil Society: Nagarik Samaj and Nagarik Discourse in Nepal’s People’s  Movement Ii. Studies in Nepali History & Society 26(2):413-34.
  • Basnet, Chudamani, and Ratnakar Jha. 2021. पूर्वी नेपालमा मधेसी पुरुष र पहाडी महिला बीचमा अन्तरजातीय प्रेम र विवाह. Samaj Adhyayan 17:67-90.
  • Basnet, Chudamani. 2020. वि.सं. २०६२–२०६३ को जनआन्दोलनमा नागरिक आन्दोलन र नागरिक समाज. In Civil Society in Loktantra: A Review of the Past Twenty Five Years. Harshaman Maharjan, Devraj Humagain, Pratyoush Onta, Lokranjan Parajuli, and Devendra Upreti (eds.), pp. 79-100. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari
  • Basnet, Chudamani, and A. S. Sandhya. 2020. Female Employers and Their Maids in New Delhi: ‘This Is Our Culture’. South Asia Research 40(2): 282-98.
  • Basnet, Chudamani. 2020. वि.सं. २०६२–२०६३ को जनआन्दो लनमा नागरिक आन्दोलन र नागरिक समाज. Samaj Adhyayan (15): 173-194. (Also published as a book chapter, above)
  • 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.
Last Updated : 12 Mar 2024