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Central Asia: A Textbook History is the textbook of the history of all Central Asia, East and West, that is East Central Asia (Tibet and Xinjiang) and West Central Asia (Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turk-menistan) from the ancient time to the present in any language, eastern or western. The author has written it mainly for students, scholars, and teachers of the history of Central Asia.
March of Central Asia is the chronicle of the March of all Central Asia (East Central Asia: Tibet and Xinjiang, and West Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan), the central region of the continent of Asia, through twenty centuries from the ancient time to the present. It tells of the condition and circumstance of all Central Asia, its episodes and encounters, and the routes taken by its society and its patterns during this ...
Tibet is an ancient land of an ancient people. Ram Rahul has studied, and written on Tibet extensively. In Modern Tibet, he studies Tibet up to 1951, when it was taken-over by the People's Republic of China. He has especially dealt with the Dalai Lama as the head of state and government of Tibet and the relationship between Tibet and China.
Mongolia, the only independent state of Central Asia, has a long history of strategic importance. Its geographical location between China and Russia affected its political status in modern times. Its emergence as an independent state in 1921 was due to the Sino-Soviet rivalry for domination there. It was so at the time of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1924 and it was so at ...
Bhutan and Nepal are the enchanting kingdoms of the Himalaya borderland of South Asia. They have each a splendid heritage. Bhutan is less old than Nepal. In Rise of Nepal and Bhutan Professor Ram Rahul seeks to provide a framework for a proper study of monarchal Bhutan and Nepal. Although there is a vast body of literature on the Himalaya borderland, there is as yet no work which makes available in one volume all relevant facts of the history and political ...