Author: Sujeev Shakya (Forword by Gurcharan Das) >
Nepal Popularity:
The past decade has been an eventful one for Nepal. It has featured thwarted attempts at democracy, a royal massacre and a coup, and finally, almost incredibly, Maoist guerrillas coming over ground, w
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Nepal Popularity:
Identity and Society: a new book on social inclusion and exclusion in Nepal. It contains articles by eminent scholars The article of Yam Bahadur Kisan explores on Dalits’ inclusion in Nepali state gov
- Politics of Citizenship: Madeshi Exclusion
- Social Dimensions of Drug Abuse
- Parentocracy in Basic Education
- Why One-Laptop-per-Child?
- Nepal Police and Social Inclusi
Author:Clint Rogers >
Anthropology Popularity:
During the early 1960s, as the Chinese army clamped down on Tibetans' freedom to move about, engage in trade, and practice their religion, the residents of Ru, an old Tibetan trading village and site
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Is Nepal in South Asia? The Condition of Non-Postcoloniality 207
Mary Des Chene
Nepali Modernities and Postmodernities: Theater, Culture and Politics 225
The introduction to Simple Convictions is written by Kanak Mani Dixit, an editor and reporter who was active in the fight against ‘royal regression’ and maintained a public p
Author:Samten G Karmay >
Tibetan Buddhism Popularity:
The first part of this book deals with historical matters especially the stereotyped notions of the king Lang Darma in Tibetan Buddhist historical works. It is followed by a comparative study of the c
Author:David N. Gellner, Joanna Ptait-Czarnecka >
Anthropology Popularity:
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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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
Author:Karna Sakya, Linda Griffith >
Recent Books Popularity:
This book gives a comprehensive analysis of folklore in general, as well as a thematic and structural study of Nepalese folk tales. It draws comparisons between the genres of myths, legend and folklor
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