Contents: I. Nepal: 1. Crisis and under-development. 2. Historical antecedents. 3. Economy and society today. 4. Centre and periphery. II. Growth at the periphery: 5. The expansion of the bureaucracy. 6. The growth of towns in West Central Nepal. 7. The changing structure of commerce. 8. The development of the transport sector. III. Stagnation at the periphery: 9. Decline, growth and stagnation: aspects of under-development in manufacturing. 10. Social and spatial variation among farmers in West-Central Nepal. 11. Economic and social differentiation in rural areas. 12. Peasants at the periphery: the absence of options. Nepal in crisis: the next generation. Bibliography. Index.
