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CINNABARIS - SERIES OF ORIENTAL STUDIES Cardamom and Class A Limbu Village and its Extensions in East Nepal Ian Carlos Fitzpatrick Cardamom and Class investigates the history of economic differentiation in a Limbu village in east Nepal. By examining three historically overlapping productive processes - subsistence agriculture, cardamom cultivation, and international migration - this book shows how each productive process has contributed in different ways to the ...
What are the most dangerous peaks to climb? What are the safest? When is the best time of year to climb? These and many other questions are answered in this comprehensive statistical analysis of climbing activity, ascents and fatalities in the Nepal Himalaya. The analyses cover three periods of climbing: 1950-1969 - the expeditionary period, 1970-1989 - the transitional period, and 1990-2009 - the commercial period The data are analyzed in several categories ...
‘Our Village Our Life: Sikles in Focus’, the book is the product of a two year photography project with the Sikles Development Concerned Group Community in the Kaski district of Nepal. It is an inspirational archive of images which gives the reader an intimate insight into life in a rural Himalayan village and shows local people’s lives, cultures and traditions. All the photographs in the book have been taken by local people making it a unique ...
This book, by one of Nepal’s leading experts on international law, analyses the current state of treaty relations between India and Nepal in the flight of contemporary principles of international law. Describing the complex historical background to these relations, it highlights those aspects of the relationship which have remained stumbling blocks. Because of its geographical proximity to and historical links with China and India, Nepal’s foreign ...
Neglect of socio- economic needs, inequality and injustice in Nepali society attributed to the genesis of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. In early 1990, a mass upsurge Jana Andolan paved way for multi party of governance in Nepal. The opening up of the polity increased the awareness of inequality which helped Maoist insurgency to grow dramatically. However, in November 2005, a Comprehensive Peace Agreement was reached between the Communist Party of Nepal ...
Nepal China Society believes that the publication of this volume is a modest effort aimed at serving academic excellence in the field of Buddhism particularly with the Chinese connection. Because the historical Buddha was born in Nepal, his teachings are of immense significance for the Nepalese and they are embedded spiritually and historically with the Nepali sentiment. However, it is no less important for people living in other parts of the globe. The aim of ...
This book is on the political socialization of women in Nepal which is a prerequisite for understanding the actual role, status, and participation of women in politics. The objective of the study is to know how Nepali women are socialized politically within different micro and macro spheres, i.e., family, religion, law, educational institution, media and political party. The study attempts to highlights the disparity in socialization of women by reflecting upon ...
Himalayan Nature has published "Lepidoptera of Nepal". The status of butterflies and moth species has been published as a most updated checklist on the Lepidoptera Book. The book enlists 660 species out of which, 29 species are endemic. 41 species have been proposed for inclusion in the protected animal list in the recent report submitted to CEPF/WWF. The book differs from all previous books in compiling a complete checklist of butterflies and moths ...
Set amid the high Himalayas, abode of the gods, Nepal has been called the kingdom where deities mingle with mortals. As one of the remotest corners of Nepal, Dolpo was, until recently, virtually unknown to the outside world. The main aim of publishing this book is to further promote Dolpas wonderful natural beauty and simultaneously raise awareness about the importance of environmental sustainability and the preservation of Dolpa and the greater Himalayan region ...
This volume discusses issues of tribal identity and the Maoist rebellion in the face of Hindu kingship and caste organization. The 1990s witnessed the rise of two successive but interrelated movements that transformed society-ethnic revivalism and the Maoist rebellion. The author, who lived for some months in central Nepal before the emergence of these movements, studied a multi-caste and a multi-ethnic village community. The site of the author's fieldwork is ...
The researcher attempts to write a book on Nepal and her Maoist activities because he gets interested to evaluate as well as justify if the role and appearance of the Maoist Comrades whose armed revolution in the form of guerrilla war truly manages to capture a few areas of Nepal to keep under their control where the Nepali Police and military cannot penetrate themselves even at day time, are really effective and adequate in Nepal. They claim that Nepal is ...
This book welds together the exploits of the Gurkhas and their colourful ancestry in an animated and rousing style. Above all, the story of the Gurkhas is a fascinating glimpse into the culture, history and deeds of these brave soldiers from Nepal.
In recent past, Nepal has witnessed a great upheaval and great change. There have been many ups and downs is here with Maoist insurgency and establishment of new government with dethronement monarchy. The book scatters light mainly on Maoist insurgency in Nepal with internal dimensions, rise of Maoist in Nepal, 2006 democracy movement in Nepal, absolute monarchy to democracy struggling for Nepal’s future, the China factor in Nepal political development in ...
Nepal today is at a critical crossroad, with hopes of its resurgence as a nation-state clouded in a mire of doubts and confusion. This book is primarily based on the author's ground assessment reached through interactions with innumerable people, both high and low, during his recent trek through Nepal. They include, besides the man on the street, some key personalities from the worlds of politics, academia, bureaucracy and business.
In Hope and in Fear provides a unique insight into how ordinary Nepalis experienced and lived through the Maoist insurgency. Their hopes and their fears, and the way in which they responded to and coped with the anxieties, tensions are pressures generated by the conflict, are the central concern of this collection. Providing a historical background to the launching of the Maoist insurgency in February 1996, the first part of the book also gives perspectives on ...
Boundaries are manifestations of national identity. They can be trip-wires of war. This is all the more important if the involved parities are nuclear powers. The nuclearisation of South Asia has threatened to inflame long-standing boundary disputes that India has with China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. This book attempts to examine all the major aspects of these disputes. Going deep into their historical legacies, it discusses ...
Ancient texts reveal that Jesus spent seventeen years in the Orient. They say that from age 13 to age 29 he was both students and teacher. The events of his pilgrimage from Jerusalem to India were recorded by Buddhist historians. To this day he is known and loved throughout the East as Saint Issa.For the first time Elizabeth Clare Prophet brings together the testimony of four eyewitnesses of these remarkable documents. With the thoroughness of a determined ...