Water Management through Indigenous Knowledge: A Case of Historic Settlement of Bhaktapur City, Nepal

Dipendra Gautam, a young hectic interdisciplinary researcher is renowned for his unique and up-to-date research topics in Anthropology. A graduate in Anthropology from Tribhuvan University, Nepal has been paying his unrelenting efforts to fulfil the hiatus between academics and research. His due dedication in research has quarried out many facts behind the indigenous people of Nepal; the approaches for his research include techno-anthropological perspectives on indigenous knowledge and practices. He is a pioneer researcher in indigenous knowledge and practices in Nepal. He has accomplished several researches regarding the dimensions of indigenous knowledge systems through extensive field works and regular attachment with the indigenous people. He has even performed several researches in geotechnical earthquake engineering before switching as an anthropological scholar. He is a well recognized scholar in geotechnical earthquake engineering and anthropology. He is well admired for his dedication and seminal interpretations of research findings.