The article raises the issue of underdevelopment in Nepal. The author argues that the fatalism and Bahunism are the main causes of underdevelopment in Nepal. The article also includes the thought of Dor Bahadur Bista where he attempts in his book Fatalism and Development to identify key factors in Nepali society that are obstructing and wasting its efforts to develop. The author further writes Bahunism is the syndrome of cultural configuration, along with the principles of the caste system and Vedic traditions, that heavily emphasizes fatalism and its karmic determination, from which has developed the social organization of the varna or cast system (with the reference to Bista). The author generalizes the central notion of Bista's Fatalism and Development into two parts: the first being configurations of Bahunism and the second being the explicit and implicit modes of domination. It includes diagrammatic representations of the findings in five figures. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2006-10-25)