Contents
PART XI — MIGRATION, URBANISATION AND DIASPORA (continued)
Chapter 101 — Nepal–India Circular Migration
Chapter 102 — Gulf Migration
Chapter 103 — Remittances and Household Transformation
Chapter 104 — Urbanisation
Chapter 105 — Informal Economies and Street Commerce
Chapter 106 — Diaspora Cultural Institutions
PART XII — CULTURAL MODERNITY AND MASS MEDIA
Chapter 107 — Maithili Print and Literary Institutions
Chapter 108 — Angika Print and Literary Institutions
Chapter 109 — Radio and Broadcasting
Chapter 110 — Cinema, Video and Recorded Performance
Chapter 111 — Newspapers and Public Debate
Chapter 112 — Sahitya Akademi, Academies and Institutional Canon Formation
Chapter 113 — Women Writers and Alternative Literary Publics
Chapter 114 — Videha and Digital Literary Culture
Chapter 115 — Digital Archives and Cultural Preservation
Chapter 116 — Unicode, Tirhuta and Technological Recognition
PART XIII — THE CONTEMPORARY ECONOMY
Chapter 117 — Demographic Structure and Population Change
Chapter 118 — Agriculture in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 119 — Land Fragmentation and Rural Livelihoods
Chapter 120 — Migration-dependent Economies
Chapter 121 — Remittances, Consumption and Housing
Chapter 122 — Education Economy and Coaching Migration
Chapter 123 — Health Economy
Chapter 124 — Roads, Highways, Airports and Connectivity
Chapter 125 — Digital Payments, Mobile Phones and Platform Economies
Chapter 126 — Tourism and Pilgrimage Economies
Chapter 127 — Mithila Painting in the Global Market
Chapter 128 — GI, Heritage Branding and Intellectual Property
Chapter 129 — Climate Change and Agrarian Risk
Chapter 130 — Flood Adaptation and Resilience
Chapter 131 — India–Nepal Border Economies after Federalisation
PART XIV — CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Chapter 132 — Family Transformation
Chapter 133 — Changing Marriage Practices
Chapter 134 — Gender, Education and Employment
Chapter 135 — Youth Culture
Chapter 136 — Social Media and Language
Chapter 137 — Religious Change and Public Ritual
Chapter 138 — Caste in Contemporary Society
Chapter 139 — Madhesh, Federalism and Social Citizenship
Chapter 140 — Maithili, Angika and Bajjika in Contemporary Public Life
Chapter 141 — Cultural Heritage versus Living Culture
Chapter 142 — The Future of the Regional Cultural Economy
PART XV — SYNTHESIS
Chapter 143 — The longue durée of social change
Chapter 144 — From Subsistence to Market Integration
Chapter 145 — Household, Caste, Class and Gender across Time
Chapter 146 — Riverine Ecology and Economic History
Chapter 147 — Language as Social Infrastructure
Chapter 148 — India and Nepal: One Interaction Zone, Multiple Political Economies
Chapter 149 — Cultural Persistence, Reinvention and Modern Institutions
Chapter 150 — Conclusion: Socio-Cultural-Economic Histories without Timeless Essences
Selected Chronology
Glossary
Historical Place-Name Concordance
Language-Name Concordance
Consolidated Bibliography
Index