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About the Author
Lok Raj Baral is professor of political science at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal, and a former president of the Political Science Association of Nepal. He has been a Fulbright Professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1984–85), a visiting fellow at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway (1993), and has published many books and essays on Nepali and South Asian affairs.