Farewell to the Bagmati civilisation: Losing riverscape and nation in Kathmandu
Submitted by susan on Fri, 2007-06-01 19:00
The Kathmandu reaches of the Bagmati River are widely characterised as severely degraded. This article explores the rhetorical life and death of the concept of a 'Bagmati civilisation': a particular configuration of history, cultural identity and river ecology espoused by a prominent Nepali river restorationist.
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