On Nepal's Martial Races
Lieutenant General George Fletcher MacMunn, The Martial Races of India (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, 1933) Lieutenant General George Fletcher MacMunn (1869-1952) who started his militar…
Book Reviews
Articles, interviews and notes in English and Nepali.
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Among the Himalayas
Lt. Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell, Among the Himalayas (London: Archibald Constable & Company, 1899) It was Lt. Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell (1854–1938), a British military surgeon, who ve…
Picturesque Nepal
Percy Brown, Picturesque Nepal [London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912] There are many authors who have worked on Nepal's aesthetic and cultural heritages. The book of Percy Brown, Picturesque Nepal …
On India's Frontier or, Nepal: The Gurkhas' Mysterious Land.
Henry Ballantine,On India's Frontier or, Nepal: The Gurkhas' Mysterious Land [New York: J. Selwin Tait and Sons, 1895] The book On India's Frontier or, Nepal: The Gurkhas' Mysterious Land (New Yo…
Alberuni's References on Nepal
Edward C. Sachau, Alberuni’s India (Two Volumes) [London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1910] Edward C. Sachau’s two volume book Alberuni’s India [London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 19…
On Nípal War 1814-1816
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…
The George Bogle’s Mission
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) Clements R. Markham, the then president of the…
Language, Literature, and Religion of Nepal
Hodgson’s Essays on the Language, Literature and Religion of Nepal and Tibet (London: Trubner & Company, 57 & 58 Ludgat Hill, 1874) No other contemporary scholar than Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800…
The First Modern Nepali-English Dictionary
Professor Ralph Lilley Turner’s A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner Co Ltd. 1931) Professor Ralph Lilley Turner’s A Comparativ…
The Land of Gurkhas
William Brook Northey, The Land of the Gurkhas or The Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal [Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1937] William Brook Northey’s The Land of the Gurkhas or The Himalayan Kingdom o…
Gimlette's Account of Nepal
Lieutenant Colonel George Hart Desmond Gimlette’s Nepal and the Nepalese (London: H. F. & G. Witherbyn, 1927) was published at a time when the Prime Minister of Nepal was Chandra Shamsher JBR. Th…
Nepal in Yuan Chwang's Travel Records
(Vol 06, No. 22, May 10, 2013) Thomas Watters' two volume book On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1904/1905) was put in order from an unpublished manu…