Perceval Landon, Nepal Vol. I & II (New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 2007) (Originally published in 1928) Father Giuseppe de Rovato’s “An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal” was the first article written by any European on King Prithvi Narayan Shah –…
Munshi Shew Shunker Singh & Pandit Shri Gunanand, Nepal: History of the Country and the People (New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1983) (Originally London: Cambridge University Press, 1877) (Edited by Daniel Wright) Originally published in 1877, the book Nepal: History of the Country…
Lok Raj Baral, Nepal – Nation-State in the Wilderness: Managing State, Democracy and Geopolitics (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2012) Nepal is at very crucial stage of its history as a “nation state.” While every state by definition is a political and a…
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. The book came into its present shape after sixteen years of…
Ludwig F. Stiller, S. J., Nepal: Growth of a Nation (Kathmandu: Human Resources Development Center, 1993) Ludwig F. Stiller, S. J. is not a new name in Nepal. He was a famous American Nepalese historian who produced a couple of distinguished…
Ludwig F. stiller, S.J., The Silent Cry: The People of Nepal: 1816 -1839 (Kathmandu: Sahayogi Prakashan, 1976) The Silent Cry is the story of the People of unified Nepal during a trying period of adjustment and searching of goals.…
Laurence Oliphant, A Journey to Katmandu (London: John Murray, 1852) Jung Bahdur Rana (1816 – 1877) has been one of the most talked about figures in the history of Nepal. The founder of the Rana dynasty, he has been remembered as a…
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) Many of the writings of Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792–1878), an English…
Father Giuseppe de Rovato’s “An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal,” published in 1786, is the rare eye-witness description of the Gorc’ha conquest of the Kathmandu Valley in 1767-69. It is believed to be the first article written by any European…
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