Dam Development: The Dynamics of Social Inequality in a Hydropower Project in Nepal

affected families agricultural andandandand Andhi Muhan Asian Development Bank Baglung Bahuns Beltari benefits Bhattarai PAF cash compensation caste and ethnic caste groups cent Cherlung clan clients contractors current research dam intervention Damai Darpuk district dominant downstream economic elites employment Environmental ethnic groups factionalism favour fishing gain gender Gulmi district guthi hierarchy households Hydroelectric Hydroelectric Project hydropower hydropower project ibid impacts implementation India Kali Gandaki Kami Kathmandu KGEMU labour land acquisition land loss leaders loans Magars Maoist Mirmi moral economy Nepal Electricity Authority Nepali Congress networks Neupane PAF Newar occupational castes ofofofof outcomes Palpa district Pandey particularly patron-client relations patronage politics patrons peasants programmes project construction period project intervention project officials relationships resettlement respondents river role ropani rural Sarki social inequalities society SPAF strategies Syangja Syangja district terai thethethethe traditional village women