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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 the…
Read More: Gimlette's Account of Nepal »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 books on Nepal's…
Read More: The Growth of the Nepalese Nation »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. This story begins with the…
Read More: The Story of Silent Years »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 tyrant, a Maharaja, a Kazi…
Read More: Laurence Oliphant on Jung Bahadur »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),…
Read More: On Nípal War 1814-1816 »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 on King Prithvi…
Read More: Giuseppe de Rovato on King Prithvi Narayan Shah »Francis Buchanan Hamilton, An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal and the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha (Edinburgh: Longman, 1819) The book of Francis Buchanan Hamilton An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal is the second book in English…
Read More: Early Accounts of Nepal »The book of Eden Vansittart, Notes on Nepal [Calcutta: 1896] was published about 110 years after the publication of Giuseppe de Rovato's account of the conquest of Nepal Valley by Gorkha King Prithvi Narayan Shah. Vansittart was the captain of the 2/5th…
Read More: Custom Search search Vansittart's Notes on Nepal »Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was the first renowned European who reached Central Asia and India between 343-323 BC. The British exploration, which began about the end of the 18th century triggered by the East India Company, is quite new. Cornélius…
Read More: Nepal in the Accounts of Early Jesuit Travellers »Cecil Bendal, A Journey of Literary and Archaeological Research in Nepal and Northern India During the Winter of 1884-85 (New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1991) (Originally published by Cambridge in 1886) The book A Journey of Literary and…
Read More: Custom Search search A Window on Literary and Archaeological Research »William J. Kirkpatrick, An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul [New Delhi: Manjusri Publication House, 1969] [First published in 1811] The Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul : being the substance of observations made during a mission to that country in the year…
Read More: Kirkpatrick's Classic on Nepal and Its People »Hodgson also writes about speedy disposal of court cases in Nepal. However, if his finding is related with the grievance of Poet Laureate Bhanubhakta Acharya [1814-1871], who had a civil case at Kumarichok Court in Kathmandu, the finding may have been too…
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