Many misconceptions circulate in the West about Tantric religion, whether Buddhist or Hindu, mainly because scholars have relied exclusively on textual sources. Here, for the first time, is an account
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The author is an art and culture critic who worked in various positions of the Department of Archaelology and Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Nepalese Government. This book is a study of the wo
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Most papers included in this compilation are presentations made at various events during the International Year of Mountain 2002. Of these, seven are keynote address and one commissioned paper (Chapte
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Musical Instrument of Nepal, a book by Ram Prasad Kadel, has explored the surviving inborn musical instruments. He not only has explored the musical instruments but he has also illustrated 362 differe
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Nepal is the only officially Hindu Kingdom in the world and has remained so through successive changes of political regime. Since the nineteenth century it has experienced the autocracy of the Ranas,
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...In Nepal, ethnic identity and national identity overlap largely. Ethnic/regional identity by minorities could challenge the nation, but it appears from the survey that this assertion does not c
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In these volumes Mary Slusser has documented and illustrated the origins and evolution of the remarkable Nepalese civilization that evolved in the Kathmandu Valley - known for much of its long history
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This book of interviews with nineteen scholars shows how research on Nepal is produced in the United Kingdom (UK), which has been the centre of much social science writing on the country. In addition
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With its enormous geo-ethnic diversity, unique history, and strategic location, Nepal has undergone drastic changes following the democratic restoration of 1990. Sadly, despite the proliferation of me
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This book is a reflection on Nepals political economy. Nepal remains one of the poorest countries despite plethora of development experiments that span nearly five decades. This irony is complemented
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