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<p>The Kot Massacre of 1846 gave sufficient power to Jang Bahadur to establish his dictatorial rule in Nepal. The butchery began after the murder of Gagan Singh, the power behind the throne on the 14th of September. Almost all the spirited nobles and the highest officers were either killed or exiled. King Rajendra Bikram Shah was on the throne. He was intimidated. He, against his...
"To this day Nepal is a living myth. It is enacted throughout the year in the succession of seasonal rites and festivals. No living art supports them any longer." Stella Kramrisch, a noted authority on Nepalese art ended her book 'Art of Nepal with these words. It is a common assumption, though one the authors of this paper feel to be incorrect. It could be said that Nepal, alone among her...
In a paper presented at the 1972 International Congress of Linguists in Bologna, an attempt was made by Joseph Greenberg to determine the conditions under which anon-classifier language might become a classifier language. In approaching this question, Greenberg was obliged to raise the prior question as to the definition of the linguistic type to which we refer "classifier language." His...
This sets out the Lepcha book of belief or wanism that was translated and transcribed by the author.
<p>This book of the story of King Hangshu Dewa and his minister Wokde in Rong or Lepcha script was owned by a Lepcha called Nalengbo of Bom Basti of Kalimpong. When he learned of the author's interest in Lepcha script, he gave him the book in 1925. It is a story of civilisation and culture of ancient Nepal recorded by the Lepcha Kirat people of the east. It tells of the conversion...
<p>During the last quarter of the eighteenth century, Gorkha, a small kingdom in the central hill region, subjugated the petty principalities that existed along the southern flanks of the Himalaya mountains, some with strips of territory in the Terai. The rulers of Gorkha who belonged to the Shah dynasty, then shifted their capital to kathmandu and laid the foundation of the present...
In this report the adaptation of the inhabitants of Limi Panchayat, Humla District, Karnali Zone is discussed and the potential for development in the area assessed. The report is based on fieldwork carried out March to September 1974 and specifically provides a corpus of basic ethnographic-ecological data which can be used by planners in the government to develop this and other similar high...
The University of California expedition to the Tibetan districts of Kutang and Nubri at the headwaters of the Buri Gandaki River in northern Nepal during October and November 1973 originated from a more general scheme that had as its chief aim the microfilming of Tibetan Buddhist texts by several teams deputed to Nepal by the Group in Buddhist Studies of the University of California during the...
<p>Although their population is relatively small, the Thakalis' entrepreneurship and rapid rise to wealth and power has prompted attention in many articles, most of which have been concerned with the history of the Thakalis and their traditional life in their Thak Khola homeland. With the exception of Messerschmidt's article, nothing has been published about the Thakalis who...
Buddhism as practised by the Newar community of the Kathmandu Valley has several unique features not found in other countries where Buddhism is practised. This has been noticed by scholars but surprisingly little research has been done on the rituals and rites of the Newar Buddhists and there is little detailed knowledge. The author witnessed the bare chuyegu rite at Machindra Baha in...
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