Nepal Utpidit Dalit Jatiya Mukti Samaj

Nepal Utpidit Dalit Jatiya Mukti Samaj (Nepali: नेपाल उत्पीडित दलित जातीय मुक्ति समाज) is a Nepalese Dalit movement.[1] The organization emerged in the wake of the 1990 democracy movement as the major Dalit movement in the country.[1] Nepal Udpidit Dalit Jatiya Mukti Samaj was founded in 1992, through the merger of two previous organizations - the Nepal Rastriya Dalit Jana Bikas Parishad and the Utpidit Jatiya Utthan Manch.[2][3][4]

The organization was nominally non-partisan.[2] It was politically linked to the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist).[1] As of the early 1990s, the majority of the Central Committee members of the organization belonged to CPN(UML), but there were also members of the Samyukta Jana Morcha (Bhattarai group), Samyukta Jana Morcha (Lilamoni group) and some independents.[5] The organization worked for the abolishment of untouchability and for the inclusion of Dalits in political participation.[2]

When the CPN(UML) was split in March 1998, a major split also followed in the Mukti Samaj with the emergence of the Nepal Udpidit Jatiya Mukti Samaj as a parallel organization.[5]

  1. ^ a b c Thomas Benedikter (2003). Krieg im Himalaya: Hintergründe des Maoistenaufstandes in Nepal ; eine politische Landeskunde. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 109. ISBN 978-3-8258-6895-6.
  2. ^ a b c Dwarika Nath Dhungel; Aditya Man Shrestha (2006). Nepal, Conflict Resolution and Sustainable Peace: Monarchy, national security, ethnicity, dalits, and gender issues. Institute for Integrated Development Studies. p. 162. ISBN 978-99946-915-2-4.
  3. ^ Mom Bishwakarma (7 March 2019). Political Transformations in Nepal: Dalit Inequality and Social Justice. Taylor & Francis. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-429-75615-3.
  4. ^ Bhuwan Chandra Upreti (2007). Nepal, Democracy at Cross Roads: Post-1990 Dynamics, Issues, and Challenges. Kanishka Publishers, Distributors. p. 90. ISBN 978-81-7391-930-5.
  5. ^ a b Yāmabahādura Kisāna (2005). The Nepali Dalit Social Movement. Legal Rights Protection Society. p. 160. ISBN 978-99946-35-19-1.