In Makadum in Khandadevi Rural Municipality-6 of Ramechhap district, non-Dalit women have begun learning to play traditional musical instruments that, by long-standing social custom, have only ever been played by members of the Dalit community, a small but telling shift in a village where such boundaries have held for generations. The women say their motivation is straightforward: music is not the property of any one caste but a shared cultural…