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Essential for both the traveller and scholar alike, Nepal fills a long dormant gap in the literature of this spectacular region and is a product of many years of individual research by scholars of Nepal's history, religion, art and sociology. It draws on a variety of authoritative studies of Nepal's cultural history that have been published in European and Nepalese languages.The guide begins with an overview of the history of Nepal. This focuses on the Kathmandu ...
This book was prompted by the arrival in Nepal during the early 1990s of some 95,000 people of Nepali ethnic origin who claimed to be citizens of Bhutan, who had been wrongfully evicted from their country. These claims were contested from the very beginning, and even twelve years later not a single one of them had returned to Bhutan. Unbecoming Citizens explains who these people are and why they left Bhutan. It also examines the broader implications of their ...