Book Reviews

Articles, interviews and notes in English and Nepali.

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नेपालमा न्यायिक समितिः नजिकबाट नियाल्दा

हालै नेपाल कानुन समाजद्वारा प्रकाशित नेपालमा न्यायिक समितिः नजिकबाट नियाल्दा (काठमाण्डौः नेपाल कानुन समाज, २०७६) भन्ने पुस्तक यस क्षेत्रमा कार्यरत सबै सम्बद्ध व्यक्ति तथा संस्थाहरुका लागि एउटा रा

A chronicle of change

Ram Sharan Mahat’s “Trials, Tremors and Hope: The Political Economy of Contemporary Nepal” is a comprehensive account and analysis of major aspects of change from the 50s to this day Nepal is cha

Atkinson on the Khas People of the Western Himalayas

Edwin T. Atkinson, The Himalayan Districts of the North-Western Provinces of India, Vol II (Allahabad, North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1884 Edwin T. Atkinson is the first autho

Atkinson on the Khas People of the Western Himalayas

Edwin T. Atkinson, The Himalayan Districts of the North-Western Provinces of India, Vol II (Allahabad, North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1884 Edwin T. Atkinson is the first autho

The Great Earthquake of 1934

Major General Brahma Shamsher, Nepalko Maha Bhukampa 1990 [Kathmandu, 1935] The book of Major General Brahma Shamsher Nepalko Maha Bhukampa 1990 [Kathmandu, 1935] presents graphic accounts of the

Gurkhas in the Indian Mutiny

Frederick P. Gibbon, The Disputed VC: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny (London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1909) There are several books written about the role of Gurkhas in the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58,

The Divya Upadesh of Prithvi Narayan Shah

Prithvi Narayan Shah, Divya Upadesh (Possibly 1772-1775) The Divya Upadesh (Divine Counsel) of Prithvi Narayan Shah the Great (1723–1775), the founder King of the unified Nepal, is probably the s

Buddha and Buddhism in Nepal

V.A. Smith, The Early History of India: From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest (London: The Glorier Society, 1907) There are many books on the history of South Asia of the first m

Adventure with Nepalese Captors

Frederick P. Gibbon, A prisoner of the Gurkhas (London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1904) The book A Prisoner of the Gurkhas (London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1904) is one of the few books w

On British Resident Brian H. Hodgson

W. W. Hunter, Life of Brian Houghton Hodgson (London: John Murray, 1896) Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of state in the interest of one's own

The Kashmiri References on Khas People

Jogesh Chunder Dutt, Kings of Kashmira: Being a translation of the Sanskrita work Rajataranggini (London: Trubner & Co, 1879) The Rajataranggini, a twelfth century book, which explains the histor