Friendship Forgotten - 1887
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 fol…
Must Read Books on Nepal
Articles, interviews and notes in English and Nepali.
221 entries
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…
Nepal in Yuan Chwang's Travel Records
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On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1904/1905) was put in order from an unpublished manuscript after his death in 1901.…
Captain Thomas Smith's Nepal Years
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 t…
The Country Caught in 'Chakrabyuha'
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 Inde…
Regional Perspective on Water?
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 w…
Sunandra K. Datta-Ray, Smash and grab: Annexation of Sikkim (New Delhi: Vikash, 1984)
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 forma…
The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal
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 Nep…
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 History of Absorbing Patriotism
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 an…
Nepal: A Journey into the Mythical Past
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 …
Nepalese state, democracy and geo-politics.
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 st…