Warszawa: Dialog, 2005 — 276 s. — (Dzieje Orientu). ISBN: 83-89899-29-9. Przedstawiona tu historia ostatnich pięćdziesięciu lat himalajskiego Królestwa Nepalu zaczyna się od obalenia autokratycznych rządów dziedzicznych premierów rodziny Ranów. Królestwo powoli otwiera się na świat. Zmiana systemu politycznego w Nepalu nie tylko nadaje prawa polityczne całym grupom społecznym...
N.-Y.: Springer, 2008. — 499 p. Unless they are torn apart by tectonic action, Nepal and India have to live and engage with each other in many spheres: social, economic and political. Of all the engagements the two countries have to deal with, the issue of water resources is the most important and at the same time a very sensitive issue, because water is the most important...
Washington: East-West Center, 2007. — 87 p. — (Policy Studies; 34). — ISBN: 978-1-932728-63-7. This study explores the ethnic dimension of the challenges that Nepal currently faces. Although Nepal has made substantial progress toward regaining political stability since April 2006, ethnic conflict has become a major problem. The indigenous nationalities movement, whose origins...
Patna: M. N. Barman & Co, 1937. — 132 p. Up to this time we had no modern work which dealt with the chronology and history of Nepal from the earliest time to 880 A. D. For the period from 880 A. D. (the foundation of the Nepal Era) to the eighteenth century (when the present dynasty succeeded) the chronology and history have been worked out by Dr. C. Bendall and embodied in the...
Pluto Press; Insight Press, 2005. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0-7453-2341-3. A Maoist revolution has been raging in Nepal since 1996. In 1999, Li Onesto became the first foreign journalist to travel deep into the guerrilla zones of this Himalayan country. Allowed unprecedented access, she interviewed political and military leaders, guerrilla fighters, villagers in areas under Maoist...
Kathmandu, Nepal, 1952. — 178 p. A draft manuscript of this Ancient and Medieval History of Nepal was prepared in early 1942 after a three year research into varied materials, most of them absolutely original. This, however, could not see the light of publication at the time, as subsequently after it fell into the hands of the Indian C. I. D., when the author himself was...
Lexington Books, 2007. — 219 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7391-1426-1. Paradise Lost examines the state-society relationships in Nepal and demonstrates that the nature of the state, disjuncture between the state and the society, and the rupture of the ideological hegemony of the ruling class of Nepal have created a situation where existing institutional frameworks are disintegrating and...
The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003. — lviii + 412 p. — (Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries, No. 46). — ISBN: 0-8108-4797-3. The Historical Dictionary of Nepal provides a detailed historical account of Nepal along with a picture of Nepal's contemporary political scene and development. For those readers whose familiarity with the country is limited as well as for those whose...
Kathmandu: HMG Press, 1972. — 146 p. Our aim is to write Nepal history in the context of world history, wherever possible. We do not know how far we have succeeded in oui attempt. We do not know how far this book written in a nutshell will serve our aim. We leave it entirely to its readers to judge the book by its merits. That the book may prove a helpful guide to the students,...
Vijayawada, 1953. — 120 p. — (Arya Vijnana; 16). This volume is devoted exclusively to the history of Nepal for which the main source book, accepted on all hands, is the Nepala Raja Vamsavali. Here in the author exposes the arbitray and mischievous manner in which the Western European Orientalists have dealt with the native source book, even while relying upon it mainly for all...
Third printing. — Cambridge University Press, 2012. — xxiv + 296 p. — ISBN: 0-521-80470-1. Nepal emerged as a unified state over 200 years ago, centred on the Kathmandu Valley with its 2000 years of urban civilisation. While John Whelpton’s history focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in 1950–1, the early chapters are devoted to the origins of...
Translated from The Parbatiya by Munshi Shew Shunker Singh and Pandit Shri Gunanand. With an Introductory Sketch of The Country and People of Nepal by the Editor, Daniel Wright. — London: Cambridge University Press, 1877. — 324 p. The translation of the History has been made by Shew Shunker Singh, the Mir Munshi attached to the British Besidency, who has lived in Nepal for...
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