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Edwin T. Atkinson, The Himalayan Districts of the North-Western Provinces of India, Vol II (Allahabad, North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1884-New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol: 09, No 15, February 19, 2016 (Falgun 7, 2072)

Major General Brahma Shamsher Nepalko Maha Bhukampa 1990 [Kathmandu, 1935] - New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol: 08, No. 22, May 22- 2015 (Jeth 08, 2072)

Frederick P. Gibbon, The Disputed VC: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny (London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1909) - New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol: 08 No. -19 April 10- 2015 (Chaitra 27, 2071)

Prithvi Narayan Shah, Divya Upadesh (Possibly 1772-1775) - New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol: 08 No. -17 March. 06- 2015 (Falgun 22, 2071)

Charles A. Sherring & M.A. F.R.G.S, Western Tibet and the British Borderland: The Sacred Country of Hindu and Bouddhists (London: Edward Arnold, 1906) - New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol 08, No 14, January. 16- 2015 (Magh 2, 2071)

V.A. Smith, The Early History of India: From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest (London: The Glorier Society, 1907) - New Spotlight, Vol 08, No. 11, November, 2014

Frederick P. Gibbon, A prisoner of the Gurkhas (London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1904)- New Spotlight, Vol 08, No 9, October 9-18, 2014(Kartik 1, 2071)

Jogesh Chunder Dutt, Kings of Kashmira: Being a translation of the Sanskrita work Rajataranggini (London: Trubner & Co, 1879) - New Spotlight, Vol: 08, No. 4, July 25, 2014 (Sharawan 9, 2071)

W. W. Hunter, Life of Brian Houghton Hodgson (London: John Murray, 1896) - New Spotlight Fortnightly,Vol: 08, No. 4, July 25, 2014 (Sharawan 9, 2071)

Lt. Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell, Among the Himalayas (London:  Archibald Constable & Company, 1899) - New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol 07, No 18, March 21, 2014 (Chaitra 07, 2070)

Lieutenant General George Fletcher MacMunn,  The Martial Races of India (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, 1933) - New Spotlight Newsmagazine,Vol 07, No 20, April 20, 2014 (Baishakh 5, 2071)

Sarat Chandra Das, Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1902) - New Spotlight Newsmagazine,Vol 07, No 19, April 04, 2014 (Chaitra 21, 2070)

Percy Brown, Picturesque Nepal [London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912] - New Spotlight Newsmagazine,Vol 07, No 17, March 07, 2014 (Falgun 23, 2070)

Henry Ballantine,On India's Frontier or, Nepal: The Gurkhas' Mysterious Land [New York: J. Selwin Tait and Sons, 1895] - New Spotlight Newsmagazine, Vol 07, No 16, February 02, 2014 (Falgun 02, 2070)

William Frederick Travers O'Connor, On the Frontier and Beyond: A Record of Thirty Years' Service (London: John Murray, 1931) - New Spotlight Newsmagazine, Vol: 07 No. -15 Jan. 31- 2014 (Magh 17, 2070)

Edward C. Sachau, Alberuni’s India (Two Volumes) [London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1910] - New Spotlight Newsmagazine,Vol 07, No 14, January 10, 2014 (Poush 26, 2070)

Thomas Watters', On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1904/1905) - (New Spotlight Newsmagazine, Vol 06, No 22, May 10, 2013)

Cornélius Wessels, Early Jesuit Travelers in Central Asia: 1603-1721 [The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1924] - (New Spotlight Newsmagazine, Vol 06, No 21, April, 2013)

Surya Nath Upadhyay's International Watercourses Law and a Perspective on Nepal-India Cooperation (Kathmandu: Ekta Books, 2012) - (New Spotlight Fortnightly, February 8-21, 2013)

Eden Vansittart, Notes on Nepal (Calcutta: 1896) - (New Spotlight Fortnightly, January 25 - February 8, 2013)

Giuseppe de Rovato, An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal - (Source: New Spotlight Fortnightly, January 11, 2012)

A Journey to Katmandu– Laurence Oliphant (London: John Murray, 1852) (Source: New Spotlight Fortnightly, December, 2012)

चक्रव्युहमा चन्द्र सूर्यः राष्ट्रिय सुरक्षा र स्वाधिनताका चुनौती– सरोजराज अधिकारी (Kathmandu: Sangri-La Books, 2069/2012) (Source: New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol 06, No 12, December 14, 2012)

Nation-State in the Wilderness: Managing State, Democracy and Geopolitics - Lokraj Baral, 2012

On China - Henry Kissinger, 2011

Does the Elephant Dance?: Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy - David M. Malone, 2010

The Raj Lives: India in Nepal - Sanjay Upadhya, 2008

British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials - Colin Turpin & Adam Tomkins, 2007

The Constitution of the United Kingdom: A Contextual Analysis (Constitutional Systems of the World) - Peter Leyland, Peter Leyland, 2007

Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century - Nandan Nilekani, 2009

The Idea of Justice - Amartya Sen, 2009

Torture Killing Me Softly - Tek Nath Rizal, 2009

Men In White - Lee Kuan Yew, 2009

Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah: Tragic Hero of Kashmir - Ajit Bhattacharjea, 2008

Selected Essays on Foreign Relations - Hira Bahadur Thapa, 2009

The New Dynamics of Conflict in Nepal - Bishnu Prasad Poudel & Hari Bansh Jha (eds), 2009

English-Nepali Glossary of Federalism Terms - IDEA/Forum of Federations, 2009

In Defence of Democracy: Dyanamics and Fault Lines of Nepal's Political Economy- Ram Sharan Mahat (New Delhi: Adroit Publishers, 2005) (Published in The Kathmandu Post, January 19, 2006)

Nepal: Growth of a Nation - Ludwig F. Stiller, 1993

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond, 1997

The Silent Cry: The People of Nepal: 1816 -1839 - Ludwig F. stiller, S.J., 1976

Priests and Cobblers: A Study of Social Change in a Hindu Village in Western Nepal - A. Patricia Caplan (Aylesbury Bucks; International Textbook Company Limited, 1972)

Nepal Vol. I & II, Perceval Landon, (New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 2007) (Originally published in 1928)

Nepal and the Nepalese - Lieutenant Colonel George Hart Desmond Gimlette’s (London: H. F. & G. Witherbyn, 1927)

William Brook Northey's The Land of the Gurkhas or The Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal [Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1937]

Professor Ralph Lilley Turner’s A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner Co Ltd. 1931) - Book Review (New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol 07, No 3, July, 2013)

Tibet and Nepal - A. Henry Savage Landor, (London: A. & C. Black Soho Square, 1905)

A Friend in Need-1857: Friendship Forgotten -1887' - William Digby, (London: Indian Political Agency, 1890)

A Journey of Literary and Archaeological Research in Nepal and Northern India During the Winter of 1884-85 - Cecil Bendal (New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1991) (Originally published by Cambridge in 1886)

Rajendralala Mitra, The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, [Calcutta: The Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1882]

Miscellaneous Essays relating to Indian Subjects - Brian Houghton Hodgson [London, Brian Trubner and Co., 1880]

Nepal: History of the Country and the People - Munshi Shew Shunker Singh & Pandit Shri Gunanand (New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1983) (Originally London: Cambridge University Press, 1877) (Edited by Daniel Wright)

Clements R. Markham, Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa (London: Trubner & Co., 1876)

Hodgson’s Essays on the Language, Literature and Religion of Nepal and Tibet (London: Trubner & Company, 57 & 58 Ludgat Hill, 1874)

Thomas Smith, Narrative of a Five Year's Residence at Nepal [London: Colburn and Co, 1852] - (New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol: 06 No. -17 Feb 22- 2013 (Falgun 11, 2069)

Henry Thoby Prinsep, History of the Political and Military Transactions in India during the Administration of the Marques of Hastings 1813-1823 (Two Volumes) (London: Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1825) - Book Review (New Spotlight Fortnightly, Vol 07, No 6, August, 2013)

An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal and the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha - Francis Buchanan Hamilton (Edinburgh: Longman, 1819)

An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul - William J. Kirkpatrick [New Delhi: Manjusri Publication House, 1969] [First published in 1811]

China Monumentis - Athanasius Kircher [Amsterdam: Jaco Meurs, 1667]

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