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 Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner Co Ltd.…

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 of Nepal [Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1937] was published…

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. The book came into its present shape after sixteen years…

Amendment of the Constitution

Lecture Note of Dr Bipin Adhikari, National Law College, LL.M First Year, May 17, 2013.) (Student notes /not to be quoted/cited for any purpose other than at classrooms) The provision on amendment of the Constitution allows every constitution to keep…

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On Yuan Chwang’s Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1904/1905) was put in order from an unpublished manuscript after his death in 1901. Yuan Chwang, also known…

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 Nepal 563 before the beginning of the Christian era. Even though there is…

Apex court verdict splits legal eagles

(Advocate Bipin Adhilari defends the move, arguing that this would discourage those people who bring in PIL for a cheap publicity stunt. “PILs are brought before the court to defend the rights of the public. But we have seen that…

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