2. Selecting the Title
• Area: Early 19th century English literature
• Genre: Poetry
• Sub-genre: Romantic Poetry
• Subject: William Wordsworth
• Topic: The Tintern Abbey
• Issue: Assimilation of Self into Nature
• Perspective: Ecocriticism
A research title should have: issue to be
raised/explored, (author), primary text,
perspective to be used to analyze the text
3. • Area: Literary Ecology
• Genre: Novel
• Sub-genre: American novels
• Subject: John Steinbeck
• Topic: The Grapes of Wrath
• Issue: Loss of Home and Loss of Identity
• Perspective: Ecocriticism
4. • Area: Women’s Writings
• Genre: Novel
• Sub-genre: Nepali women who write novels in
English
• Subject: Manjushree Thapa
• Topic: Seasons of Flight
• Issue: Sense of Alienation and Problem of Cultural
Assimilation
• Perspective: Diaspora Studies
5. • Area: National Security and International Relations
• Genre: New Security Issues
• Discipline: Military Interventions
• Subject: Humanitarian Military Intervention
• Topic: South Sudan/Nigeria [Government and Jihadist
group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against
the Government from 2009] /Mali {The United
Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization
Mission in Mali MINUSMA was established on 25 April
2013/ Rwandan Civil War fought between Rwandan
Armed Forces {Hutu} and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic
Front {Tutsi} from 1 October, 1990 to 18 July 1994
• Issue: Role of UN Peace Keeping Force
• Perspective: Security Perspectives
6. • Area: National Security and International Relations
• Genre: International Affairs of a Nation
• Sub-genre: Defense and Foreign Policy
• Subject: Small Nations’ Defense and Foreign Policy
• Topic: Defense and Foreign Policy of Nepal
• Issue: Constraints of Nepal’s Defense and Foreign
Policy
• Perspective: Structural Realism
7. • Area: Economy and Development
• Genre: Political Economy
• Sub-genre: International Cooperation and
Connectivity
• Subject: BRI of China
• Topic: Collaboration, Cooperation and Connectivity
for Development
• Issue: BRI and Geo-political Conflict in Nepal
• Perspective: Conflict, Security and Development
Studies
8. • Area: Conflict
• Genre: Conflict Resolution
• Sub-genre: Conflict Resolution Approach
• Subject: Conflict Resolution Approach at Local
Level
• Topic: Conflict Resolution Approach in the Rural
Municipalities of Gandaki Pradesh
• Issue: Impact of Conflict Resolution in the
Development Process of the Rural Municipalities
• Perspective: Kenneth Thomas and Ralph Killman’s
five approaches of Conflict Resolution
9. • Area: Conflict
• Genre: Border Dispute
• Sub-genre: Border Dispute between Nepal and
India
• Subject: Encroachment of Nepal’s Territory
• Topic: Indian Encroachment of Nepal’s Territory
• Issue: Encroachment of Nepal’s Territories of
Limpiyadhura, Lipulek and Kalapani
• Perspective: Territorial Security
10. • Area: Cultural Studies
• Genre: Kirant Culture
• Sub-genre: Khuwalung(Situated in the
confluence of Dhankuta and Udaypur border
area)
• Subject: Concrete and Abstract Culture of
Khuwalung Heritage
• Topic: Khuwalung: Centre for Kinrat Culture
• Issue: Present Status, Constraints and Prospects
Khuwalung
• Perspective: Ethnographic Studies
11. • Area: Tourism
• Genre: Cultural Tourism
• Sub-genre: Tourism In Ilam
• Subject: Home Stay
• Topic: Shree Antu Home Stay
• Issue: Social Impact of the Reception of the Guest
in Shree Antu Home Stay
• Perspective: Cultural Tourism
12. • Area: Nepali Folk Culture
• Genre: Folk Songs
• Sub-genre: Festival Folk Songs
• Subject: Teej Songs
• Topic: Teej Songs of Rupandehi
• Issue: Evolution and Development of Teej Songs
of Rupandehi
• Perspective: Cultural Relativism
13. • Area: Migration
• Genre: Foreign Labour Migration
• Sub-genre: Foreign Labour Migration in Nepal
• Subject: Foreign Labour Migration in Lumbini
Pradesh
• Topic: Open Border with India and FLM
• Issue: Challenges of Open Border and Lumbini
Province
• Perspective: Migration Studies
14. • Area: Politics
• Genre: South Aian Politics
• Sub-genre: Conflict in Political Parties
• Subject: Conflict in Nepali Political Parties
• Topic: Conflict in Nepali Communist Parties
• Issue: Intra party Conflict of Nepal Communist
Party
• Perspective: Conflict Studies
16. • Practical problem: My brakes are screeching.
• Research question: Why are my brakes screeching?
• Research problem: Can I find a brake shop in the
yellow pages to fix them?
• Research solution: Here it is. The Deurali Motor
Parts, Mainabagar, Butwal-2
• Practical Solution: Drive over to get them fixed