The "Svasthānī Vrata Kathā" Tradition

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The "Svasthānī Vrata Kathā" Tradition is written by Jessica Lynn Vantine Birkenholtz and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1124048421 (ISBN 10) and 9781124048420 (ISBN 13).

The SVK bears particular witness to the tensions and interplay between the historical narratives of normative Brahmanical Hindu ideology and practice cultivated in the Nepal Himalaya and those imported from the Indian plains, and between Nepali high-caste Hindu culture and local Newar Hinduism. In retracing the history and development of the SVK, I examine the construction process through which Nepal became "the world's only Hindu kingdom," including the use of the SVK as a conduit for the ruling elite to reach the masses with political discourse in the garb of religious rhetoric. The question at the heart of this project is: How does the SVK, contextualized within Nepal's diverse geopolitical and socioreligious history, inform our understanding of what it means to be a Nepali who is Hindu and a Hindu who is Nepali?