Bal Gopal Shrestha
Dr Bal Gopal Shrestha is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. He taught Politics of South and Southeast Asia at the University of Leiden (2006-07). He made the award-winning ethnographic documentary Sacrifice of Serpents: The Festival of Indrayani, Kathmandu 1992/94 (Leiden, 1997) together with the late Bert van den Hoek and Dirk J. Nijland. He has conducted fieldwork in Nepal, India, the UK and Belgium, and has published widely on Nepalese religious rituals, Hinduism, Buddhism,...See more
Dr Bal Gopal Shrestha is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. He taught Politics of South and Southeast Asia at the University of Leiden (2006-07). He made the award-winning ethnographic documentary Sacrifice of Serpents: The Festival of Indrayani, Kathmandu 1992/94 (Leiden, 1997) together with the late Bert van den Hoek and Dirk J. Nijland. He has conducted fieldwork in Nepal, India, the UK and Belgium, and has published widely on Nepalese religious rituals, Hinduism, Buddhism, ethnic nationalism, the Maoist movement, and political development in Nepal. See less
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