HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Volume 28 Number 1 Ethnicity, Inequality and Politics in Article 9 Nepal No. 1 & 2 June 2010 Review of 'Living Goddess' a film yb Ishbel Whitaker David Gellner Oxford University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya Recommended Citation Gellner, David. 2010. Review of 'Living Goddess' a film yb Ishbel Whitaker. HIMALAYA 28(1). Available at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol28/iss1/9 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the DigitalCommons@Macalester College at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. REVIEWS LIVING GODDESS Nepal Valley, he marched in and met no resistance. The city’s inhabitants were exhausted from years of siege; and, despite FILM BY SHBEL HITAKER AND the privations they’d had to put up with, they managed, so A I W it is said, to be drunk and celebrating the Indra Jatra festival. MARK HAWKER, FEATURING SAJANI (T.R. Vaidya, 1996: 215, ascribes Kathmandu’s lack of fight SHAKYA, CHANIRA BAJRACHARYA, to the population’s terror that they might suffer the same fate DHARMA BAJRACHARYA, PREETI as the inhabitants of Kirtipur in 1766, where all the men, SHAKYA. MUSIC BY NITIN SAWHNEY. having surrendered after initially putting up stiff resistance, had had their noses and lips cut off.) Darkfibre films (87 minutes). Distribution: Prithvi Narayan marched straight to the centre of the Alivemindmedia.com.