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William Digby, A Friend in Need-1857: Friendship Forgotten -1887' [London: Indian Political Agency, 1890] The Rana rule has often been the focus of many writers who wrote the history of Nepal following the rise of Prime Minister (General) Jung Bahadur Rana.…
Read More: Friendship Forgotten - 1887 »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 of Nepal [Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1937] was published 14…
Read More: The Land of Gurkhas »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On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1904/1905) was put in order from an unpublished manuscript after his death in 1901. Yuan Chwang, also known as Hiuen Tsang, was a great Chinese…
Read More: Nepal in Yuan Chwang's Travel Records »Thomas Smith, Narrative of a Five Year's Residence at Nepal [London: Colburn and Co, 1852] Thomas Smith's Narrative of a Five Year's Residence at Nepal [London: Colburn and Co, 1852] brings all the excitement of the story of Nepal in the first half of the…
Read More: Captain Thomas Smith's Nepal Years »Bipin Adhikari A book entitled Chakrabyuha ma Chandra Surya: Rastriya Surakshya ra Swadhinata ka Chunautiharu [The Sun and the Moon Caught in Chakrabyuha: Challenges of National Security and Independence], which was released in Kathmandu on 30th November…
Read More: The Country Caught in 'Chakrabyuha' »A watercourse describes any flowing body of water. This includes rivers, streams, anabranches, and so on. Nepal is a rich country in terms of its water resources. It has a functioning system of water law as well. Surya Nath Upadhyay'sInternational…
Read More: Regional Perspective on Water? »Dr Bipin Adhikari This is an oustanding work on the story of illegal annexation of the Kingdom of Sikkim by India. It explains how in 1973 anti-royalty riots in front of the palace led to a formal request for protection from India, and the Indian government…
Read More: Sunandra K. Datta-Ray, Smash and grab: Annexation of Sikkim (New Delhi: Vikash, 1984) »Rajendralala Mitra, The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, [Calcutta: The Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1882] Gautam Buddha, also known as the Shakyamuni, was born in the Western foothill of Nepal 563 before the beginning of the Christian era. Even though…
Read More: The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal »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 Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London:…
Read More: The First Modern Nepali-English Dictionary »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 – the founder of modern…
Read More: The History of Absorbing Patriotism »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:…
Read More: Nepal: A Journey into the Mythical Past »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…
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