For many years the need has been felt for a comprehensive book on the Ranas of Nepal. These pictures provide a valuable socio-historical record of an age that has disappeared, but has left its indelible imprint upon Nepal. To go through this sumptuously produced and lavishly illustrated volume is to take a journey into the past, and yet the book is not merely an exercise in nostalgia. It provides rich background for the history and culture of the beautiful ...
