The Education Gap among Caste/Ethnic Groups in Nepal
Characteristic Features and Factors
2002 Volume 2002 Issue 28 Pages 179-196
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2002 Volume 2002 Issue 28 Pages 179-196
Nepal has been influenced by religions such as Buddhism, Islam and some other primitivefaiths, but historically it has always been a society dominated by Hinduism and thus characterized bya Hindu caste system.The main objectives of this paper are to investigate the disparities in academicachievement to be found between the upper and lower hierarchies in this caste system, and toexamine the educational impact of determining factors that may have arisen as a result of this socialorder.
