Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu

Chautari Book Series - 92

Contents

• Illustrations - ix
• Acknowledgments - xi
• Author’s Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms - xv
• Preface - xvii
• Introduction: Public Intimacy and Voicing Subjects in Kathmandu - 1
• Chapters:
  1. Intimate Callings and Voices of Reform: Law, Property, and Familial Love - 42
  2. Seeing Face and Hearing Voice: Tactile Vision and Signs of Presence - 87
  3. Making Waves: The Social and Political Context of FM Radio - 124
  4. Mero Kathā, Mero Gīt: Affective Publics, Public Intimacy, and Voiced Writing - 161
  5. Diasporic Voices: Sound of the Diaspora in Kathmandu - 215
• Epilogue: Royal Victims, Voicing Subjects - 242
• Notes - 255
• References - 273
• Index - 291