00844pab a2200169 454500 180718b2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Banerjee, Sumanta Nepal: a new flashpoint? 2002 p.3715-716. 7 Sep It is not surprising that the Nepal government is eager to brand the Maoists as terrorists and tie its actions against them to the US-led anti-terrorist compaign and obtain arms and ammunition. The Maoists have become a threat to the monarch and the ruling interests, rallying as they have the hitherto dispossessed mainly from the depressed castes from far-flung rural areas against local feudal lords. - Reproduced. Nepal - Politics and government Politics and government Economic and Political Weekly 53721 53721 53721 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 37, Issue no: 36 AR54166 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR