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...India is no stranger to violent rebellion, as the decades-long struggle in Kashmir attests. But the separatist conflict there and low-level insurgencies in the country's remote northeast grind on at the periphery, driven by groups agitating to break away. The Maoists, like their ideological brothers in Nepal who recently took power through elections, are different. They want to overthrow the government in New Delhi and install a new one, and they have taken their fight to the geographic heart of the country, to the scrubby woodland and remote, poor villages that blanket a huge chunk of central...
...Class war is still an unlikely dream, however. Yes, Maoist rebels recently won power in neighboring Nepal. But the Indian state is more powerful and sophisticated than Nepal's defeated monarchy. (The rise of Nepal's Maoists has actually split opinion among their Indian brothers: some believe that the Nepalese group sold out by participating in elections, while others argue it is a legitimate tactical move toward revolution.) And in India's rowdy democracy, the entire political spectrum from far right to the mainstream Communist Party of India have called for the Maoists to be destroyed...
Tibet and Nepal, the long-standing darlings of the Himalayan tourist trade, have not been the most welcoming countries for visitors over the past few months. Foreign tourists have been barred from Tibet since March's anti-Chinese protests. Political troubles in Nepal, where recent elections were marred by bombings, have deterred many holidaymakers. Understandably, some travelers are now beginning to look across these borders to the Indian Himalayas, where the state of Uttarakhand - until recently known as Uttaranchal - has quietly been building its own tourist trade. It offers drop-dead gorgeous trekking - the same as you would find...
...Nepal...
...REPUBLIC IS BORN Nepal's newly elected assembly voted on May 28 to abolish the nation's 240-year-old monarchy, turning the world's last Hindu kingdom into its newest republic, as jubilant citizens flooded the streets of Kathmandu to celebrate. Former Maoist insurgents will make up the largest political party in the fledgling government, which now must grapple with building a stable society after a decade of civil war. Outgoing King Gyanendra has been given 15 days to abdicate his throne...