Verso, 2014. — 326 p. The Bullet and the Ballot Box offers a rich and sweeping account of a decade of revolutionary upheaval. When Nepal’s Maoists launched their armed rebellion in the nineties, they had limited public support and many argued that their ideology was obsolete. Twelve years later they were in power, and their ambitious plan of social transformation dominated the...
Routledge, 2017. — 210 p. Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accentuated ethnic competition, assertion of identity, and demand for ethnic homelands to protect, safeguard, and promote political and development interests of various groups. This volume discusses competing...
Marxist Internet Archive, undated. — 4 p. Developments and struggles between revolutionary and revisionist political lines in Nepal, among many who have identified themselves as Maoists (in one sense or another), continue to spark polemics among revolutionaries in South Asia as well as throughout the world. In this Open Letter from Maoists in Bangladesh, recent moves and...
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...
Jigme P. S. Bista for Tashi Gephel Foundation, 2002. — 341 p. Mustang was once an independent kingdom of Lo, although closely tied by language and culture to Tibet. From the 15th century to the 17th century, its strategic location granted Mustang control over the trade between the Himalayas and India. At the end of the 18th century the kingdom was annexed by Nepal and became a...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 414 p. Since emerging in 2006 from a ten-year Maoist insurgency, the “People's War,” Nepal has struggled with the difficult transition from war to peace, from autocracy to democracy, and from an exclusionary and centralized state to a more inclusive and federal one. The present volume, drawing on both international and Nepali scholars and...
Nepa~Laya, 2016. — 449 p. Nepal is a land of spectacular natural beauty and abundant natural resources, in a strategic geographic location between China and India, with their large and vibrant economies. With such favourable assets and the tremendous goodwill of the international community, Nepal ought to have a galloping economy and a prosperous society. Yet, it remains mired...
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...
Indiana University Press, 2004. — 316 p. This is a readable and high-quality book. It provides more information and insight on the most successful Marxist rebellion in South Asia's history than has previously been found within one set of covers." —David Gellner The eruption of a violent Maoist insurgency in Nepal in the late 1990s was met with bewilderment even among many who...
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...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 358 p. Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history, part-analysis, part-memoir, and part-biography of the key characters, the book breaks new...
Routledge, 2017. — 143 p. This book sheds new light on the important but diverse roles of women in the civil war in Nepal (1996-2006), and the post-conflict reconstruction period (2006-2016). Engaging critically with the women, peace and security literature, Women, Peace and Security in Nepal questions the potential of peace processes to become a window of opportunity for...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 186 p. The history of Nepal began in, and centers on, the Kathmandu Valley. The book is designed to provide extensive knowledge in history, culture, religion, art, architecture, archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, and cultural tourism to the students. Presents an overview of the democracy movement and the history of education in Nepal.
Routledge, 2010. — 375 p. The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN(M). It contextualizes and explains why and how a violent Maoist insurgency grew in Nepal after the end of the Cold War, in contrast to the decline of other radical communist movements in most parts...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 425 p. Revolution in Nepal is a comprehensive study of the People's War in Nepal that was waged by the Maoist party. The chapters are based on extensive fieldwork conducted at the grass-roots level, covering the country's rural areas from Khotang to Jumla, before, during, and after the revolutionary movement. They focus on village life and its...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 433 p. — ISBN 978– 0– 19– 765093– 6 Until 1951 Nepal was closed to the world, landlocked between the strongest Asian powers, India and China. With its exceptional landscape, it touts the highest mountains and the greatest biodiversity on earth. It is best known as the home of Mt. Everest and holds particular fascination for those interested in...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 257 p. At the turn of the millennium, Nepal was the world's last remaining Hindu kingdom: even the most skeptical of observers could hardly imagine that the institution of the monarchy could ever be in jeopardy. In 2001, however, Nepal's popular King Birendra was killed in the royal palace. The crown passed to his brother Gyanendra, but 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...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 200 p. The Maoist insurgency in Nepal lasted from 1996 to 2006, and at the pinnacle of their armed success the Maoists controlled much of the countryside. Maoists at the Hearth, which is based on ethnographic research that commenced more than a decade before the escalation of the civil war in 2001, explores the daily life in a hill...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 200 p. The Maoist insurgency in Nepal lasted from 1996 to 2006, and at the pinnacle of their armed success the Maoists controlled much of the countryside. Maoists at the Hearth, which is based on ethnographic research that commenced more than a decade before the escalation of the civil war in 2001, explores the daily life in a hill...
Viking, 1992. — 280 p. The recent revolution dramatically changed the face of Nepali politics. A manarchy from the days of the Rana rulers in the 19th century. the country's rulers had systematically suppressed all dissent. However, by the time King Birendra ascended the throne in 1975. the politics in Nepal had changed to some extent. King Birendra, in an attempt to rectify...
Routledge, 2018. — 151 p. This book presents an overview of the democracy movement and the history of education in Nepal. It shows how schools became the battleground for the state and the Maoists as well as captures emerging trends in the field, challenges for the state and negotiations with political commitments. It looks at the factors that contributed to the conflict, and...
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 arrested...
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...
Second Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 530 p. Nepal is a living example of contrasts and contradictions.It is a country that was born in medieval times, grew up in the 16th century, and now finds itself engulfed in the high-tech gadgets and material marvels of the 21st century. Nepal has its share of problem which include inadequate economic development...
Second Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 530 p. Nepal is a living example of contrasts and contradictions.It is a country that was born in medieval times, grew up in the 16th century, and now finds itself engulfed in the high-tech gadgets and material marvels of the 21st century. Nepal has its share of problem which include inadequate economic development...
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 nearly...
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2011. — 384 с. — (История стран Востока в XX в.) Работа посвящена анализу развития Непала. Основной акцент делается на исследовании внутриполитического, экономического и внешнеполитического развития в 20 в. Вместе с тем кратко рассматривается ход исторического процесса за всю историю страны. Содержание Краткий исторический очерк. Развитие Непала...
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2011. — 384 с. — (История стран Востока в XX в.). Работа посвящена анализу развития Непала. Основной акцент делается на исследовании внутриполитического, экономического и внешнеполитического развития в 20 в. Вместе с тем кратко рассматривается ход исторического процесса за всю историю страны. Краткий исторический очерк. Развитие Непала до начала...
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2011. — 384 с. — (История стран Востока в XX в.). — ISBN: 978-5-89292-463-7. Работа посвящена анализу развития Непала. Основной акцент делается на исследовании внутриполитического, экономического и внешнеполитического развития в XX веке. Вместе с тем кратко рассматриваются как ход исторического процесса в древности, Средневековье и Новом...
Москва: Мысль, 1964. — 208 с. — (Путешествия. Приключения). Автор несколько месяцев пробыл в Непале. Путешествуя с группой советских специалистов, он узнал много любопытного о жизни, обычаях и традициях населения этой еще малоизученной, интересной страны. Читатель встретится на страницах книги с неповторимой по красоте природой тропиков, с обитателями диких джунглей - тиграми,...
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