Affirmative action (or positive discrimination) denotes some kind of support/help for those people who were negatively affected by their own specific characteristics as sex, race, and religion (Noon 2011). In the university admissions, affirmative action policies are used to provide fair and equal access to education for the historically underrepresented group of people, who in this work are African American students (Messerli 2010). Being introduced about 50 years ago, the affirmative action is
Chapter One 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Historical and political Background 1.1.1. Nepal a Brief review Nepal, a mountainous country in south Asia, had been united by then king Prithvi Narayan Shah during his reign, 1743-1775 AD. After his death his successors also continued unification process and extended the boarder of this nation by 1816 before the Sugauli Sandhi (a treaty done with the then British India at the place named Sugauli). The Gorkha conquest in the late eighteenth century united into