The main purpose of this study is to explore the changing pattern of intergroup
(caste/ethnicity) economic inequality in Nepal from 1995/96 to
2010/11. The paper used the secondary data collected by the Central Bureau of
Statistics of Nepal for the first (1995/96) and the third (2010/11) rounds of
Nepal Living Standard Survey (NLSS). By using the adequacy of income as the
main variable, the paper compared the data of the two surveys to explore the
changes in inequalities between different caste/ethnic groups in fifteen years of
time. Besides, the other variables such as adequacy of food consumption, literacy,
health conditions, landownership and remittance are also analysed to explore
the inequality between the different castes and ethnic groups in two
points of time. Unlike most of the previous research approaches which tried
to link the concepts of group-inequalities as the cause of conflict, this study
attempts to observe the long term changes in the lives of different caste/ethnic
groups of Nepal. Therefore, this research mainly focuses on the changing pattern
of inequalities between different caste/ethnic groups in Nepal.