When People of Nepal, by Dor Bahadur Bista, was first published in 1967, it was the first relatively comprehensive view of the vast array of Nepali cultures, castes and ethnic groups, with descriptions of some of their customs. Since then the book has come out in many editions, but remains a standard against which more recent and more in-depth discussions are held.
Dor Bahadur Bista is considered to have been the pioneering indigenous anthropologist of Nepal. His ...
A bold and incisive analysis of Nepal's society, and its attempts to development and respond to change, from someone who is both and insider and an outsider to Nepal. At an early age Dor Bahadur Bista travelled all over Nepal in the company of the leading anthropologist Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf which helped him acquire an insight that enables him to make an objective and frank comment on his country. The bulk of the author's argument in this book is that ...