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Description:
The article examines the claim by Bernard Pignede that eighty percent of the Gurung men from nineteen to eighty were literate in relatively isolated Dansing-Mohariya village some sixteen years ago. Eight percent of the women also could read and write. But the latest census in 1954 shows that the corresponding figures for the country as a whole to be eight percent and seventeenths of a percent respectively. The article studies patterns of education and literacy in a village panchayat of Central Nepal. The article includes statistics of school attendance by males and females. The Gurungs are relatively well-educated in nearby Pokhara and other places where they own a greater percent of land. The article reveals that Gurungs tend to live in close-knit villages. This make it easier for their children to attend nearby schools. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-01-01)
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