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Podcast: New Books in Early Modern History
Episode: Maximillian Mørch, "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal’s Tarai (1743-2019)" (FinePrint, 2023)
Description: When we think of Nepal, we think of its high Himalayan mountains, or maybe the highlands of Kathmandu. But somewhere between a quarter and a third of the country is nothing like that: marshy, forested, malaria-infested swampland, along the southern border with India.This is the Tarai, the most productive region of Nepal—and also the focal point for the once-Kingdom of Nepal’s conquest. Maximillian Mørch writes about the region’s history in his latest book Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal’s Tarai (1743-2019) (FinePrint, 2023), published earlier this yearMaximillian Mørch is an...