Rural Unrest in Nepal:: A History of Resistance, Revolt and Rebellion

David Seddon was formerly Professor of Sociology & Politics in the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia; he is now Director of Critical Faculty, an international research & consultancy group. He has written widely on popular struggles and on rural unrest, and having lived and worked in Nepal for many decades, he has is author and co-author of a number of books on Nepal, including Nepal in Crisis, Peasants and Workers in Nepal, The Struggle for Basic Needs in Nepal, The Peoples War in Nepal: left perspectives and In Hope and in Fear: living through the People's War in Nepal. He has also lived and worked in Morocco and is the author of Moroccan Peasants. He is currently working with two colleagues on a book in honour of Eric Wolf, author of Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century.