Disillusionment was high amongst Nepal’s indigenous groups, who make up over a third of the population, and most notably amongst the Madhesi community, who are the dominant group in Nepal’s southern plains. They join more established urban youth whose parents left agriculture a generation or two ago, and together, they share middle-class aspirations. It is against this context that simmering anger has been growing amongst vast swathes of urban youth globally. Though it is rapidly urbanizing, approximately three-quarters of Nepal’s population still live in rural areas, two-thirds of which are integrated into the farming-remittance livelihood cycle. The civil war unfolded within a rural economy shaped by a different political reality than today.