THE YAKHA: CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN ...

Acknowledgements
My wife, Tamara Kohn, has been an integral part of the research
process and has given me inestimable amounts of help, advice and care at
every stage in the past five years, which I thank her for sharing with
me.
I have benefited enormously from the sensitive and helpfu!
supervision of Drs Nick Allen and Vernon Reynolds at Oxford. Drs Sean
Con1 in and Rosalind Eyben in the (now) Social Development Department of
the ODA in London were a!so both extremely generous with their time as
my research got under way. Drs Fichael Hutt and David Watthews of the
School of Oriental and African Studies in London were excellent Nepali
language teachers as I prepared to go to the field.
I would 1 ike to thank our many friends and colleagues in Kathmandu
for their support and hospitality. In particular I think of S.P,
Koirala and his fami!y, Chhote and Gayatri Rauniyar, Ben Campbe!!,
Charles Ramble, Anne de Sales, Christine Daniels, Kate Molesworth-
Storer, Frances St~venson, Jon Lane, Carrie Osborne, Martin Gaenszle,
Betty Woodsend and Emil Wende!, Peter Woss and his staff at the British
Council were always exceptionally generous with their time and
facilities.
Dr Ratna Wan Pradhan and Mrs Mangala Shrestha at Tribhuvan
University were very helpful in processing our non-tourist visas, as
were staff in the relevant government departments. I would like to
thank Di l! i Ram Dahal and Nirmal Tuladhar at the Centre for Nepa! and
Asian Studies for their useful advice. Kamal Adhikary was extremely
generous in inviting us to his family's home, and to his fieldwork
village in West Nepal, and we have valued his friendship ever since.
! am forever indebted to the many inhabitants of Tarnaphok who
welcomed us into their community. I would especially like to thank our
'family' there, Budhilal Linkha (Apa) and his wife (Ama). 01ur 'sister',
Kamala, was our research assistant and remains our dearest friend. I am
also most grateful to Bhim Bahadur Linkha for his excellent research
assistance, and Dharkulal {'Chamba') Linkha, who shared with us his
knowledge of the Yakha mun turn. Other friends remembered with happiness
and grat i t ude include Bhaskar and Sharada Ghirnire, Dsmbaru Dungana,
Dllndiraj Satyal and the rest of the staff at Sri Chamunde Secondary
School, We were also helped by Agam Bahadur Linkha and his family,
Shiva La1 Dhami, Harkar Bahadl~r Jimi, Bimala Gajamer and her family,
Majhiys Man Bahadur Jimi and his family in Madi Mcrlkharka, and Hamjee
Kongren and his family in Dandagaon.
A!so in the Eastern region we valued the friendship and warm company
of Colin Sox, B-J Souffard, Chris Vickery, Jackie Howe!!, Lorna and John
Howel 1 , Jennifer and Andy Cox, Jean-Marion Ai t ken, Sue Det t 1 ing, Hi lary
Klonin and Juan Ortiz-Iruri. ! also owe thanks to the staff of the 'K3'
project In Dhankuta and Pakhribas Agricul tural Centre for the help they
gave us on our scheduled visits to their institutions, and to the staff
of the (now) Eastern Regional Hospital in Dharsn for the impeccable
care they gave us on our unscheduled visits to theirs,
Many friends and colleagues in the lJ.K, and other parts of the world
have been involved in variol~s stages of the research process. Simon
Baron-Cohen and Bridget Lindley were involved from the very beginning,
while later I would like to thank Steven Holl~nd, Rachel Williams, David
Mosse, .Tul i~ Cleeves-MOSSFL, David Gel 1ner , Claudia Pendred, Mark
Pittaway, Alison Williams, and Chris Burgess. Judith Justice and Mary
Des Chene have been particularly helpfu! in keeping me in touch with
Nepalese research in the U.S.A.