What happens when a highly segmented, traditional society begins to experiment with modern, basically alien political concepts in order to accelerate national development? This is the question that Joshi and Rose attempt to answer in Democratic Innovations in Nepal. This is a detailed, objective examore
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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 as "Nepal Mandala."
The author's narrative, 600 plates, 29 figures, and 9 detailed color maps grmore
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This book describes in detail the history of urbanization of Pokhara town, which is the fastest growing and one of the best-known towns in Nepal. The extraordinary history of growth and change over the last four decades is covered in the book. The process of urbanization and the consequent transformmore
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Completely updated and expanded, the seventh edition of the best-selling TREKKING IN NEPAL: A TRAVELER'S GUIDE by Stephen Bezruchka, sends trekkers to Nepal equipped with comprehensive information on the country's most rewarding routes, what to bring, what to expect, and the people and history behinmore
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the triumph f Mount Everest, the Himalayan trust Advisory committee takes pride in presenting this volume, a tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary from the Sherpa people of Nepal. Compiled and edited at The Mountain Institute and Eco Himal, it provides a broad picture ofmore
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The snow leopard of central Asia is one of the rarest of all big cats—perhaps the most beautiful, least-studied endangered species on earth. This is the extraordinary account of the first scientific expedition to radio-collar and study this exclusive animal in its natural habitat. Conducted bemore
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Nepali political parties have recently stepped into a new phase of party building. With the restoration of democracy in 1990, political parties, the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party of Nepal, Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) in particular, have undergone a number of distinct transformamore
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This volume presents an account of political developments in Nepal since the ending of the Rana autocracy and the beginning of experiments with democracy. The book also analyzes the differing conceptions of democracy in Nepal and the extend to which democratic principles could actually be put into pmore
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Book review:
"This book identifies one reason- the failure to consider sociocultural information in planning health care - for the enormous and chronic gap between policy- making and programme implementation that exists in Nepal. It will be extremely useful for anthropologists, international healmore
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In the early years of the 20th century when every country, including Japan, was looking to the west for advanced studies and training in modern technology, Nepal looked to the east, Japan, for its learning. For the first time Nepali rulers looked abroad upon an external world that offered promises. more
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