It is weird to copy the model of other nation’s progress where historical, cultural, social, psychological and material preconditions are entirely different. There is a powerful lure of Nepali leaders and scholars to borrow ideas, ideologies and projects of national progress from advanced nations. This marks a lack of their self-confidence, ability to reflect on the national context and indulge in false caricature without knowing the nation’s own characteristics - resource endowment, social genes, norms and culture.
They usually yield to ingratitude to the gift of native sediment of knowledge, heritage and culture. A sense of cultural cringe has marked the habit of denial of the scholarly heritage while embracing intellectual tribalism and ideological politics of negation of rivals. For example, Ranas’ contributions were negated by democratic forces, considering them apostle of the dark phase of nation’s history, Panchayat negated the contribution of democratic forces which expanded the elite base of polity but also spawned political flux and being conditioned by Western intellectual and ideological order.
Multi-party dispensation negated Panchayat’s contribution to the growth of the middle class and deemed it authoritarian for banning political parties. The Maoists negated the democratic forces for executing neo-liberal offensive against the people’s wish for social justice. The ensuing political change suffered from the incoherence of the economy, population and.