(University of North Bengal, 2015-03) Chhetri, Kumar
Although the British colonizers, anthropologist and administrators
have produced a bulk of ethnographic accounts, travelogues, military
accounts, and research papers there is no sufficient English literary
work which centers on the life of the Nepalis. The earlier available
works were either based on the life of Nepalis in Darjeeling or on the
Himalayan kingdom (Nepal), whereas the present work The Gurkha’s
Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly is unique in the sense that it engulfs
the life of the Nepalis both in Nepal and its Diasporas around the
world in eight short stories. Despite being fiction the stories carry the
social reality of everyday life experiences of the Nepali people and its
Diasporas.
