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<p>Colonel Kilpatrick's mission to Nepal was undertaken in early 1793. His itinerary lasted less than seven weeks, from February 13 until April 3. The cause of the mission lay as far as Nepal was concerned, in the danger that was looming large in the north just before the start of the Nepal-Tibet war of 1972. Nepal wanted military help from the British government of Bengal to...
<p>Due to the peculiar geographical position of the country, the trade of Nepal was confined to Tibet and India, and a few articles passed between Nepal and China via Tibet. The British Indian records of the period under study cast more light on the trade relations between India and Nepal. But there existed no registered trade between the two countries up to 1875. For this reason, the...
The author examines claims made by Dr Haimendorf in 1975, where he presents the link between economic organisation and its correlation with social relations. He argues that it is appropriate to consider the extent to the type of trade produces certain social attitudes and arrangements.
The concept of "social outlook" is a term that seems to explain everything, but really explains...
Various types of taxes played their role in public finance in the ancient economy of Nepal. Taxes were levied on produce at the point of origin. There are numerous references to production taxes on a wide variety of commodities. Among these, the most frequent reference has been to the Mallakara.
In the Lichhavi inscriptions so far available, the oldest mention of the ...
This paper is a preliminary report, a discussion of seasonal migratory trading patterns of the population of Baragaon. The villages concerned are located in the Kagbeni and Muktinath Panchayats in the central part of Mustang District, Nepal.
Baragaon is an area located along a traditional trade-route between Tibet, the middle hills of Nepal and the plains region of the Nepalese...
Agricultural land has always been considered as the most important national resource in Nepal by the people and the state alike. The major proportion of the state income has historically been collected in the form of land revenue. There was no uniformity in the land tax assessment system in Nepal. This was because of the physionomy of the country as well as lack of improved transport and...
Nepal is believed to have been populated mainly by immigration over many centuries, of Mongloid groups from the Tibetan region and of Indo-Aryan groups from northern India. The Muslim invasion of India accelerated migration from the south, beginning in the thirteenth century, when a large number of Rajputs (ruling groups of north India) and other Hindus left the Gangetic plain to find refuge...
The administrative district of Mustang is located in northern Nepal and is bordered by the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China to the north, the Myadi district to the south, Manang district to the east and Dolpo district to the west. The district covers an area of some 3,176 square kilometres and is drained by numerous tributaries in the north which merge for form the Mustang River. Additional...
There has always been an intimate relationship between man and plants. The dependence of man and his animals upon plants has inspired him to learn about the uses and properties of various wild plant species and the the way of self-experience, trial and error, develop an ethnobotanical knowledge about plants.
This paper attempts to compile a crude ethnobotanical list on vegetation...
Much socio-economic and demographic research conducted in Nepal based on both micro and macro-level data, basically focuses on the negative impact of population growth and the deteriorating resource situation (particularly land) in the country. Similarly a lot has been written about crops grown in permanently cultivated fields, as well as various aspects of agricultural development in Nepal,...
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