Gateway-hinter relations in changing Nepal

Social and economic development in Nepal involves a complex web of technological and social change, particularly in the areas of transport and communications. New ideas, technology, goods and services have traditionally flowed outward to the rural hinterlands from such central places as Kathmandu and Pokhara in the hills and northward from such lowland Terai entrepots as Biratnagar, Narayanghat, Bhairahawa and Nepalgunj. With the recent opening of motorable roads in rural west-central Nepal, significant changes have occurred in the process of communication, in the dispersion of ideas and..