The dictionary covers the colloquial, spoken language. It is certainly
not complete, but it is comparable in scope to existing bilingual Limbu-
English dictionaries apart from the completed but still unpublished work
of Bairagi Kainla et al., which is in a class by itself. Most of the material,
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Mesocosm offers an entirely new understanding of the role of a traditional Hindu city In the lives, of Its. Inhabitants. Formerly the capital of Nepal, the city of Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley was, by the mid 1970s. the last surviving example of a kind of city once characteristic of archaic civmore
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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 of how Tantric Buddhism works in practice. Monk, Householder and Tantric Priest is a detailed ethnomore
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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, guided partyless democracy led by the king, and, following the people's revolution of 1990, a multipmore
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The book is a bold exploration of certain controversial issues that relate to the everyday life of Hindu women. As Michael Allen says, it is "a collection of quite brilliant essays that I feel certain is destined to be acclaimed as a major contribution to the ethnography of Nepal, to the theoreticalmore
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Kathmandu, Newar Buddhist girls as young as two years old are selected to become living incarnations of the Hindu goddess Taleju. Called 'Kumaris', the children are worshiped daily by both priests and laity and until some sign of imperfection appears, most commonly with the onset of menstruation, thmore
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Articles :
Martin Gaenszle with Nutan D. Sharma - Nepali kings and Kasi: On the changing significance of a sacred centre. Page 1-33
Rhoderick Chalmers - Pandits and pulp fiction: popular publishing and the birth of Nepali print- capitalism in Banaras. Page 35-97
Heather Hindman - The everydaymore
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Editorial: Mary Des Chene
In the Name of Bikas Page 259-270
Articles:
Tatsuro Fujikura - Technologies of Improvement, Locations of Culture: American Discourses of Democracy and 'Community Development' in Nepal. Page 271-311
Bikas Pandey - Local Benefits From Hydro Development. Page 313-344
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Articles:
Yasuko Fujikura - Borders and boundaries in the era of AIDS: Trafficking in women and prostitution in Nepal. Page 1-35
Devraj Humagain – Radio Nepalka karyakram: Ardhasatabdiko samiksha.Page 37-66
Mahendra Lawoti - The Maoists and minorities: overlap of interests or a case of more
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Clint Rogers explores the entrepreneurial Manang community and their rise to economic success. With an in-depth view of their emergence as prominent international traders in the 1960s and later as tourism entrepreneurs in the 1990s, Rogers writes comprehensively and his illustrations provide a compemore
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