19 October 2026 · 7 min read
Ask a final-year student what chapter two is and most will say "जे भेटियो तेको summary" — a summary of whatever they found. That misunderstanding is why literature reviews get sent back. In Nepali, a literature review is साहित्यिक समीक्षा: a structured, critical discussion of the published research on your topic — what is known, who found it, how they found it, and what is still missing. This guide explains what the chapter actually is, what it is not, and what examiners look for.
"Literature" here means the body of published academic work on your topic — journal articles, books, past theses, reports — not novels. "Review" means examine and evaluate, not summarise one by one. Put together: a literature review is your guided tour of everything important already written about your research question, organised by theme, ending at the gap your own study will fill. It answers the reader's question: why does this study need to exist?
Start with Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL), which indexes most Nepali academic journals for free, and Google Scholar for international work. Your university's central library and TU, KU or PU departmental repositories hold past theses you can cite as unpublished work. Save full citation details for everything you read the day you read it — rebuilding a reference list from memory in submission week is where fake citations are born.
Plan on fifteen to forty sources for a typical bachelor's or master's review, though your department's expectation is the number that counts. Quality beats volume: ten genuinely discussed sources impress examiners more than forty listed ones.
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