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Anne T. Mocko's study describes in detail how the last king of Nepal's authority over numerous ritual roles was gradually removed by secular political actors. This is equally the story of a modern democracy's turn away from centuries of divine rule to the messiness of a participatory political future. Mocko's well-written account will interest scholars of the South Asian region in a variety of disciplines and students of modern political transformation. --Mary Cameron, anthropologist and author of On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal

Anne T. Mocko's study describes in detail how the last king of Nepal's authority over numerous ritual roles was gradually removed by secular political actors. This is equally the story of a modern democracy's turn away from centuries of divine rule to the messiness of a participatory political future. Mocko's well-written account will interest scholars of the South Asian region in a variety of disciplines and students of modern political transformation. --Mary Cameron, anthropologist and author of On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal Anne T. Mocko's study describes in detail how the last king of Nepal's authority over numerous ritual roles was gradually removed by secular political actors. This is equally the story of a modern democracy's turn away from centuries of divine rule to the messiness of a participatory political future. Mocko's well-written account will interest scholars of the South Asian region in a variety of disciplines and students of modern political transformation. --Mary Cameron, anthropologist and author of On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal

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Anne T. Mocko is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions at Concordia College.

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