Construction and Maintenance of Ethnic Boundaries in Nepal

Ethnicity is multi-vocal and ethnic boundaries are dynamic which is based on a dialectical interplay of similarities and differences among human groups across the globe in the social and historical context. The markers of ethnicity both objective and subjective constructs ethnic identity resulting in a form of ethnic boundaries. These constructed are boundaries are maintained sometimes by expansion and at times contraction with both continuity and change in the relative salience of the ethnic markers in the given social context.