Tulsi Ram Pandey is Assistant Professor at the Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University. He is a PhD from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He teaches sociological theories, social development, and social movements to Masters and MPhil level students and supervises PhD scholars. He has researched and written extensively on social change and resource use and management at the community level. His publications include ‘Quest of a Federal State: Understanding Issues of Social Diversity and Differences’ in Ethnicity and Federalization: Proceedings of an International Seminar, Kathmandu:Central Department of Sociology/ Anthropology, Tribhuvan University and Social Inclusion Research Fund, SNV, 2012; ‘Social Change and Political Participation’ in Lok Raj Baral (ed.) Nepal: Quest for Participatory Democracy, 2006; ‘The Failure of Confidence Mechanisms: Reflections on the 1990s Social Change Movement in the Light of Policy Measures Affecting Farming Systems in Nepal’ in Occasional Papers in Sociology/Anthropology, Vol. 3, Kathmandu: Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, 1994; Forms and Patterns of Social Discrimination in Nepal, Kathmandu: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2006.