Year of Publication : 2009
The codification of laws in Nepal was found to have commenced since
the enactment of first Country Code in 1910 under the Janga Bahadur
Rana regime. This Country Code was promulgated on the basis of Hindu
religion and Hindu philosophy. Various epics of Hindu religion had made
justifiable both caste based discrimination and treatment of women as
second class citizens of the nation. Furthermore the Country Code did
not recognized socio-cultural practice of ethnic community and other
religious group beside Hindu.
