7.4 Madhesi Communities

The constitutional-and-legal status: the identity's recognition (the 2015 Constitution's inclusion listing — Art 42's Madhesi face); the citizenship's history (the documentation's struggle — the citizenship-and-or-and debates; the 2020-era ordinance's-and-act's developments — the Madhesi- women's documentation's double barrier); the representation's record (the civil-service-and- security's underrepresentation — the inclusion provisions' answer); the federalism's-and- boundaries' question (the 2015 Constitution's province-drawing — the Madhes movements' objections; the amendment's epoch — the 2016-17 first-amendment's inclusion response); the language's face (the recognition of mother tongues including the Tarai's languages); the audit: the political-inclusion's journey (the protests-to-the-amendments line) + the socio-economic faces (the poverty's-and-infrastructure's distribution).