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The Plaints Sound Familar
Zinkin, Taya | October 8, 1955 issue

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This article presents information on Nepal which is a narrow strip of a country slung across the Himalayas between India and Tibet. Of its 8,000,000 population not more than 3 per cent are literate; only the highly inbred nobility enjoy a tolerable living standard. Although racially and linguistically the Nepalese are indistinguishable from their Indian neighbors, they are fiercely proud of their independence and distrustful of all "outsiders." The government of India was perfectly willing to let Nepal enjoy its privacy until the Chinese Communists took over Tibet. Faced then by the possibility of a further Chinese spill-over and a threat to the vulnerable flatland border that India shares with Nepal.

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COMMUNISM & international relations; ETHNOLOGY -- Nepal; POPULATION; COMMUNISTS; COMMUNISM; NEPAL
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