Bhutan
With great pleasure and expectations, we would like to invite our learned and esteemed partners to actively participate in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya regional e-discussion on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD), scheduled from 4th till 24th April 2011. The e-discussion is a preliminary brainstorming session for preparing the Hindu Kush-Himalayan status report on challenges and opportunities...
<p>Over the past few decades, Bhutan has seen tremendous developments, stemming in part from modern education. At the same time the country has endeavoured to preserve its culture and identity. However, whereas modern education makes the younger generation think in new terms and concepts, the essence of culture is still presented in essentially the same way as in the past. As a result...
After the author's grammatical studies of Limbu and Dumi, he undertook to make a study of Lohorung. Before this could be completed, he was called to Bhutan in 1989 where he was asked to write a first grammar of Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan. At the same time, the Royal Government of Bhutan asked him to undertake the "First Linguistic Survey of Bhutan" in order to establish the...
Already faced with trouble caused by ecological refugees, Nepal is bleeding under increasing pressure of political refugees from Bhutan. Preoccupied with its exclusivist national urges, Bhutan is forcibly evicting a large number of apparently permanent refugees on a scale that the receiving country Nepal has never experienced before.
Refugees are not unprecedented or a new phenomenon in...
Formally Nepal and Bhutan established diplomatic relations in 1983. Such a move was presumably prompted by the enthusiasm and calculation with which the South Asian Regional Cooperation (SARC) scheme was being given a formal shape following the proposal made by Ziaur Rahman, then President of Bangladesh. In 1985 the first South Asian summit accepted it, turning SARC into an association - South...
Bibliography of articles that are held in the Contributions to Nepalese Studies over the twenty-five years up to 1997. This Special Issue is the Silver Jubilee edition of the journal. Started in 1973, it is published twice a year, and publishes articles on Nepalese Studies focused on art and archaeology, history, historical-cultural forms, religion, folk studies, social structure, national...
The right to a country of one's own, i.e. "to belong to a sovereign state" is considered to be the most "primordial right" of a person. The very existence of a state essentially lies in the realisation of this right as well as the general well-being of its people. People living within the state are entitled to fair and equal treatment irrespective of race, religion, language or belief. The...
Making the Bhutanese foreign policy understandable is a difficult task for the author, at least for two obvious reasons. The first is that he is a Nepali who has studied the historicity of the state to state relations subsisting between Nepal and Bhutan in both spiritual and cultural terms. He is amused to hear that the same traditional, spiritual and cultural heritage are reasons for the...
The refugee problem is not new to Nepal. After 1050 when the country opened up for the outside world, several refugee groups have taken shelter in Nepal. Among them the Bhutanese are the latest group of all refugees whereas Tibetans, who largely entered Nepal in 1959, are the first group. With the Bhutanese refugees what is new however, is the scale and the time when more than 50% of Nepalese...
This article is about the marriage customs of the nomadic peoples in eastern Bhutan. (No English abstract).
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