Thimphu: Centre for Bhutan Studies, 2008. — 160 p. — (Monograph series (Centre for Bhutan Studies), no. 21). — ISBN: 9789993614517. Bhutan is making a great step forward, at a pace never envisaged 100 years ago. In our forward move, one can often overlook the great histories made by the Bhutanese monarchs, in navigating this nation to the present state, through the sea of...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 308 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-567060-8. This book recounts the plight of about a hundred thousand refugees of Nepali ethnic origin who claim to have been wrongfully evicted from Bhutan. They arrived in Nepal during the early 1990s and since then not a single one of them has returned. The author explains who these people are and analyses the Bhutanese...
Bhutan Times, 2009. — 382 p. The monarchy that embodied the Bhutanese state for the last hundred years has been the foundation and agency of Bhutan's political sovereignty and socio-economic progress. Under its leadership particularly under Fourth king his majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck the kingdom has embarked on a unique journey towards parliamentary democracy. In this book,...
Bharati Bhawan, 1984. — 236 p. Boundary disputes plagued Bhutanese–British relations. To reconcile their differences, Bhutan sent an emissary to Calcutta in 1787, and the British sent missions to Thimphu in 1815 and 1838. The 1815 mission was inconclusive. The 1838 mission offered a treaty providing for extradition of Bhutanese officials responsible for incursions into Assam,...
Random House India, 2013. — 661 p. — ISBN: 978-8184003116. In 2008, Bhutan triumphantly took the stage as the world’s youngest democracy. But despite its growing prominence—and rising scholarly interest in the country—Bhutan remains one of the least studied, and least well-known places on the planet. Karma Phuntsho’s The History of Bhutan is the first book to offer a...
Comprising the Reports of the Hon'ble Ashley Eden, - 1864; Capt. R.B. Pemberton, 1837, 1838, with Dr. W. Griffiths's Journal; and the Account by Baboo Kishen Kant Bose. — Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Office, 1865. — 1 plate, xi, 137, xi, 206 p. Published in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata) in 1865, this volume contains four narratives relating to the interactions in the 19th century...
Including Sketches of a Three Months' Residence in the Himalayas, and Narrative of a Visit to Bhotan in May 1865. — London: John Murray, 1866. — 408 + 32 p. The Dooar (or Duār) War of 1864-65 began as an attempt by the authorities in British India to annex from Bhutan the territory known as Duārs in order to stop what they claimed were incursions into India from Bhutan. David...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 263 p. — (Contemporary South Asian Studies). — ISBN: 978-3-319-47924-8. This book provides essential insights into Bhutan’s developmental challenges. It analyzes and scrutinizes the sovereign state’s developmental approach, including the idea of Gross National Happiness (GNH), which has replaced Gross National Product (GNP) as a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 159 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-65387-7. This book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy. The author examines whether Bhutan’s innovative GNH governance framework successfully navigates competing power dynamics and generates the intended human...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-40279-6. This book describes the administrative system of Bhutan. Divided into two main parts, the first part of the book describes the Bhutanese public administration by examining the various paradigms and ideal types of public administration. Chapters examine the paradigms and ideal types in the field of public...
Second Edition. — Thimphu: Dasho Karma Ura, 2010. — 197 p. — ISBN: 978-99936-633-2-4. By structuring these facts chronologically, Karma Ura has created an absorbing narration of the ‘Leadership of the Wise’, and how each successive leader since the 1840s have shaped the immediate and the long-term course of events. The story that unfolds within these pages is that of a people...
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