Literature

Nepal




Books


Korn, Wolfgang. 2007. The Traditional Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. N.p.: Ratna Pustak Bhandar.

Boch-Isaacson, Joel M. 1987. Architecture & Construction Management in the Highland and Remote Areas of Nepal. Edited by Joel M. Boch-Isaacson. N.p.: Boch-Isaacson.

Toffin, Gérard, ed. 1991. Man and His House in the Himalayas: Ecology of Nepal. N.p.: Sterling Publishers.

Girī, Gitu. 2003. Art and Architecture: Remains in the Western Terai Region of Nepal. N.p.: Adroit Publishers.

Bapat, Jayant B., and Ian W. Mabbett, eds. 2008. The Iconic Female: Goddesses of India, Nepal, and Tibet. N.p.: Monash University Press.

Hutt, Michael, ed. 2010. Nepal: A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. N.p.: Adroit Publishers.

Shimkhada, Deepak, ed. 2011. Nepal: Nostalgia and Modernity. N.p.: Marg Foundation.

Gutschow, Niels. 2012. The Kathmandu Valley: New Buildings, Sites Under Construction and Demolition, 1990-2011. N.p.: Himal Books.

Adhikari, Aditya. 2014. The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal's Maoist Revolution. N.p.: Aleph.

Gutschow, Niels. 2017. Bhaktapur - Nepal: Urban Space And Ritual: Vol 1. N.p.: DOM Publishers.

Gutschow, Niels. 2017. Bhaktapur - Nepal: Urban Space And Ritual: Vol 2. N.p.: DOM Publishers.

Gutschow, Niels. 2016. The Portals in Newar Architecture: Tiered Temples in Nepal, 13th to 19th Centuries. N.p.: Himal Books.

Gutschow, Niels. 2021. Chörten in Nepal: Architecture and Buddhist Votive Practice in the Himalaya. N.p.: Dom Publishers.

Harrison, John. 2018. A Blessing for the Land: The Architecture, Art and History of a Buddhist Convent in Mustang, Nepal. N.p.: Vajra Books.

Wiggins, Keith. 2015. Doors and Entries Of Northern India and Nepal. N.p.: Xlibris.

Reddy, Ravinder. 2019. Arms and Armour of India, Nepal and Sri Lanka: Types, Decoration and Symbolism. N.p.: Hali Publications Limited.

Dangol, Purusottam. 2007. Elements of Nepalese Temple Architecture. N.p.: Adroit Publishers.

Gajrani, S. 1998. Ancient Buddhist Monasteries: India and Nepal. N.p.: Kalinga Publications.

Bendall, Cecil. 1991. A Journey of Literary and Archaeological Research in Nepal and Northern India During the Winter of 1884-85. N.p.: Asian Educational Services.

Harrison, Peter. 2011. Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas: Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan. N.p.: Bloomsbury USA.

Matzene, Richard G., and Marcella N. Sirhandi. 2009. Royal Nepal Through the Lens of Richard Gordon Matzene. N.p.: Serindia Publications.

Goy, Bertrand, Max Itzikovitz, and Gisele Krausskopff. 2009. Wood Sculpture in Nepal: Jokers and Talismans. Edited by Gisele Krausskopff. N.p.: Harry N. Abrams

Landor, Arnold Henry S. 1993. Tibet and Nepal. N.p.: Asian Educational Services.

Korn, Wolfgang. 2015. The Traditional Newar Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley: The Stūpas and the Chaityas. N.p.: Ratna Pustak Bhandar.

Gellner, David N., and Niels Gutschow. 1997. The Nepalese caitya: 1500 years of Buddhist votive architecture in the Kathmandu Valley. N.p.: Ed. Axel Menges.

Gutschow, Niels. 2019. The Sky Face: Kīrtimukha and Related Hybrid Creatures in the Architecture of Nepal, South- and Southeast Asia. N.p.: Vajra Books.

Dickinson, Matt. 2002. Everest: Triumph and Tragedy on the World's Highest Peak. N.p.: HarperCollins.

Pant, Mohan, and Shūji Funo. 2007. Stupa and Swastika: Historical Urban Planning Principles in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. N.p.: Kyoto University Press.

Bernier, Ronald M. 1987. Nepalese Pagoda: Origin and Style. N.p.: S. Chand, Limited.

Whelpton. 2005. A History Of Nepal. N.p.: Cambridge University Press.

Sanwal, Bhairava D. 1993. Social and Political History of Nepal. N.p.: Manohar.

UPADHYAYA, SHREERAM P. 2021. A Short History of Nepal: From Ancient to Modern Times. N.p.: Nirala.

Manandhar, Vijay K. 2004. Comprehensive History of Nepal-China Relations to 1955. N.p.: Adroit Publishers.

Nepal, Anand. 2019. A Brief History of Nepal. N.p.: INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED.

Rana, Sagar S. J. B. 2017. Singha Durbar: Rise and Fall of the Rana Regime of Nepal. N.p.: Rupa Publications India.

Vaidya, Tulasī R. 1994. Advanced History of Nepal: 1737-1839. N.p.: Anmol Publications.

Liechty, Mark, Michael Hutt, and Stefanie Lotter, eds. 2021. Epicentre to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal's Earthquakes. N.p.: Cambridge University Press.

Sharma, Sudheer. 2022. The Nepal Nexus: An Inside Account of the Maoists, the Durbar and New Delhi. N.p.: Penguin Books India PVT, Limited.

Jha, Prashant. 2017. Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal. N.p.: Aleph Book Company.

Douglas, Ed. 2020. Himalaya: A Human History. N.p.: Penguin Random House.

Upadhya, Sanjay. 2008. The Raj lives : India in Nepal. N.p.: Vitasta Pub.

Horrell, Mark. 2020. The Baruntse Adventure: In the Footsteps of Hillary Across East Nepal. N.p.: Mountain Footsteps Press.

Hamilton, Francis B. 2019. An Account Of The Kingdom Of Nepal: And Of The Territories Annexed To This Dominion By The House Of Gorkha. N.p.: Lector House.

Shaha, Rishikesh. 1998. Heroes and Builders of Nepal. N.p.: Book Faith India.

Gutschow, Niels, Manik L. Bajracharya, and Axel Michaels, eds. 2016. History of Kings of Nepal: A Buddhist Chronicle. Translated by Manik L. Bajracharya and Axel Michaels. N.p.: Himal Books for Social Science Baha

Ācārya, Bāburāma. 2013. The Bloodstained Throne: Struggles for Power in Nepal, 1775-1914. Edited by Shreekrishna Acharya. Translated by Madhav Acharya. N.p.: Penguin Books.

Mumford, Stan. 1989. Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal. N.p.: University of Wisconsin Press.

Einsiedel, Sebastian v., ed. 2012. Nepal in transition : from people's war to fragile peace. N.p.: Cambridge University Press India.

Singh, R. S. N. 2010. The Unmaking of Nepal. N.p.: Centre for Land Warfare Studies.

Hutt, Michael J. 2010. The Life of Bhupi Sherchan: Poetry and Politics in Post-Rana Nepal. N.p.: Oxford University Press.

Wheeler, James T. 2011. A Short History of India and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nepal, and Burma. N.p.: Nabu Press.

Mulmi, Amish R. 2021. All Roads Lead to North: Nepal's Turn to China. N.p.: Westland Publications Private Limited.

Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie. 2011. Hindu Kingship, Ethnic Revival, and the Maoist Rebellion in Nepal. N.p.: OUP India.

Baral, Lok R., and Uddhab P. Pyakurel, eds. 2015. Nepal-India Open Border: Problems and Prospects. N.p.: Vij Books India Pvt Limited.

Misra, Neelesh. 2001. End of the line : the story of the killing of the royals in Nepal. N.p.: Penguin Books.

Bhaṭṭarāī, Nirañjana. 2010. Nepal and China: A Historical Perspective. N.p.: Adroit Publishers.

Fortier, Jana. 2009. Kings of the Forest: The Cultural Resilience of Himalayan Hunter-gatherers. N.p.: University of Hawaiʻi Press.

Hettige, Siri. 2015. Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia: Perspectives from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka - Vol.6 (Governance, Conflict and Civic Action). N.p.: SAGE India.

Zharkevich, Ina. 2019. Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal: 8 (South Asia in the Social Sciences, Series Number 8). N.p.: Cambridge University Press.

Valli, Eric. 1998. Hunting for honey : adventures with the Rajis of Nepal. N.p.: Thames and Hudson.

Purja, Nimsdai. 2022. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks -- My Life in the Death Zone. N.p.: Hodder & Stoughton.

Gautam, Rajesh, and Asoke K. Thapa-Magar. 1994. Tribal Ethnography of Nepal. N.p.: Book Faith India.

Bubriski, Kevin. 1995. Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal. N.p.: Simon & Schuster.

Dharamdasani, M.D. 2007. Role of Japan and Nepal in Asian Politics. N.p.: Gyan Publishing House.

Lawoti, Mahendra, ed. 2007. Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal. N.p.: SAGE Publications.

Dinamani, N.. 2009. Democracy and Politics in Nepal. N.p.: Sumit Enterprises.

Chaturvedi, Shailendra K. 1993. Nepal: Internal Politics and Its Constitutions. N.p.: Inter-India Publications.

Breen, Michael G. 2019. The Road to Federalism in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka: Finding the Middle Ground. N.p.: Taylor & Francis Group.

Toffin, Gérard, Marine Carrin, and Pralay Kanungo, eds. 2015. The Politics of Ethnicity in India, Nepal and China. N.p.: Ratna Sagar P. Limited.

Malla, Govinda. 2012. Politics of Foreign Aid in Nepal, 1951-1980: A Study of Development Assistance from India, China, USA, and USSR. N.p.: Adroit Publishers.

Ojha, Meena. 2012. Student Politics & Democracy in Nepal. N.p.: Nirala Publications.

Pradhan, K. L. 2012. Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806-1839. N.p.: Concept Publishing Company.

Upadhya, Sanjay. 2021. Backfire in Nepal: How India Lost the Plot to China. N.p.: Vitasta.

Malla, Meena V. 2013. Building Political Culture in Nepal. N.p.: Adroit Publishers.

Hachhethu, Krishna, and David Gellner, eds. 2008. Local Democracy in South Asia: Microprocesses of Democratization in Nepal and Its Neighbours. N.p.: SAGE Publications.

GOKHALE, VIJAY. 2021. Tiananmen Square: The Making of a Protest. N.p.: HarperCollins India Publishers Pvt Limited.

Zharkevich, Ina. 2019. Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal. N.p.: Cambridge University Press.

Tripathi, Devi P., ed. 2012. Nepal in Transition: A Way Forward. N.p.: Vij Books India.

Jha, Hari B. 2018. Nepal's Madhesh in Turmoil. N.p.: Highbrow Scribes Publications.

Raghavan, V. R., ed. 2013. Internal Conflicts: A Four State Analysis (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar). N.p.: Vij Books India.

Rae, Ranjit. 2022. Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India-Nepal Ties. N.p.: Penguin Books India PVT, Limited.

Milewski, Terry. 2021. Blood for Blood: Fifty Years of the Global Kkalistan Project. N.p.: HarperCollins Publishers India.

Kolas, Ashild, ed. 2017. Women, Peace and Security in Nepal: From Civil War to Post-conflict Reconstruction. N.p.: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Kumar, Rakesh M. 2020. Nepal Ka Samvaidhanik Vikas. N.p.: Prabhat Prakashan.

Saha, B. P. 2017. Maoist Threat in India: A Red Corridor from Nepal to Tamil Nadu. N.p.: Pentagon Press.

Slusser, Mary S., and Paul Jett. 2010. The Antiquity of Nepalese Wood Carving: A Reassessment. N.p.: University of Washington Press.

Korn, Wolfgang.(2015).,"The traditional Newar architecture of the Kathmandu valley: the stupas and the chaityas".Ratna Pustak Bhandar.

Pant, Mohan Moorti.(2022).,"Urban residential neighbourhoods of Kathmandu".RICH architecture company.

Tiwari, Sudarshan Raj.(2022).,"Temples of the Nepal valley".Himal Kitab.

Chitrakar, Madan.(2017).,"Nepali painting: through the ages".Patan Museum.

Hagmuller, Gotz.(2003).,"Patan Museum: the transformation of a royal palace in Nepal".Serindia published in association with the Patan Museum.

Bijukchhe, Narayan Man.(2015).,"Bhaktapur: after a century".Ekta Books.

Majupuria, Trilok C. and Majupuria, Indra..(2009).,"Sacred Erotic Art & Themes of Nepal".M. Devi.

Bell, Thomas.(2016).,"Kathmandu".Penguin Random House India.

Regmi, Mahesh C..(2014).,"Landownership in Nepal".Adroit Publishers.

Korn, Wolfgang.(2014).,"The traditional Newar architecture of the Kathmandu valley: the Sikharas".Ratna Pustak Bhandar.


Journal Articles / Research Papers



Rapid Urban Growth in the Kathmandu Valley: Monitoring Land Use Land Cover Dynamics of a Himalayan City with LandSat Imageries. Tempe: Environments.

Babu Bhattarai, Buddi Paudel. 2017. Shifting paradigms for Nepal’s protected areas: history, challenges and relationships. Researchgate.

Ban, Shigeru. n.d. http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/works/2015_nepal_earthquake-2/index.html.

Bhandari, Roshan Bhkata. 2014. “Social Capital in Disaster Risk Management, a case study of social capital mobilisation in the 1934 earthquake in Kathmandu.” Disaster Prevention and Management.

Bhattarai, Atul. 2018. “Storeyed Past.” The Caravan, 1 March.

Bennett, Lynn, Dilli Ram Dahal and Pav Govindasamy. 2006. “Caste, Ethnic and Regional Identity in Nepal: Further Analysis of the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey.” DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 58.

Chand, Deepjyoti. 2018. Trade Embargo as a Geopolitical Tool: A case of Nepal - India trade relations. University of Warsaw.

Chen, Mary Des. 2007. Is Nepal in South Asia? The condition of non Post Coloniality. Washington: Studies in Nepali History and Society. .

Cuppers, Christoph. 2019. Sacred Garden of Lumbini. UNESCO.

Dhakal, Suresh. 2013. “Democracy, democracies and democracy discourses in Nepal: An Anthropologist’s Engagement.” Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol 7 133-152.

Funo, Mohan Pant and Shuji. 2018. A study on the pattern of Plot divisions of Courtyard Residential Blocks of Patan, Kathmandu Valley. Tokyo: Journal of Asian Architecture and Engineering.

Giri, Gitu. 2003. Art and Architecture : Remains in the Western Terai Region of Nepal. Delhi: Adroit Publishers.

Guthi Corporation Act. 1976. Act. No. 41 (Nepal Law Commission, 20 October).

Gutschow, Neils. 2017. Bhaktapur- Nepal: Urban Space and Ritual. Vol. 1. 2 vols. Dom Publishers.

Joel T Heinnan, Bijaya Kattel. n.d. A review of Conservation Legislation in Nepal : Past Progress and Future Needs. Kathmandu: Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.

Korn, Wolfgang. 1977. Traditional Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar.

Malagodi, M. 2015. “The locus of sovereign authority in Nepal.” In Unstable Constitutionalism: Politics of South Asia, by M Tushnet, 45-85. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Malagodi, Mara. 2015. “The Locus of Sovereign Authority in Nepal.” Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia 45-85.

Michael Hutt, David Gellner. 1994. Nepal: a Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. . Kathmandu: Sajha Publishers.

Molesworth Kate, Müller-Böker Ulrike. 2005. “The Local Impact of Under-Realisation of the Lumbini Master Plan .” Contributions to Nepalese Studies 2005, Volume 32, Issue 2 (Contributions to Nepalese Studies).

Mulmi, Amish Raj. 1. “Why did the British not colonize Nepal?” The Record. 2017 October. https://www.recordnepal.com/wire/features/why-did-the-british-not-colonize-nepal/.

Neelam Pradhananga, Krishna K Shrestha, John Dee. 2009. Sustaining Indigenous Heritage: Learning from the Guthi system of Nepal. sydney: Researchgate.

Nelson, Andrew. 2012. Prestigious houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri - Urbanism. Denton: UNT Digital Library.

Oldfield, Henry Amrose. 1974. Sketches from Nipal, Historical and Descriptive, with Anecdotes of the Court Life and Wild Sports of the Country in the Time of Maharaja Jang Bahadur, G. C. B.; Volume 1. Kathmandu : Alpha Editions. .

Pant, Y P. 1955. “Nepal’s first Census.” Economic and Political Weekly.

Prabisha Amatya, Saruna Ghimire,Karen E. Callahan,Binaya Kumar Baral,Krishna C. Poudel. 2018. “Practice and lived experience of menstrual exiles (Chhaupadi) among adolescent girls in far- western Nepal.” Plos One.

Rajjan Chitrakar, Mirko Guaralda, Douglas Baker. 2014. “Urban Growth in the Kathmandu Valley: The transformation of Public Spaces.” Research Gate. Ranade, Shilpa. 2000. World Architecture 1900- 2000: A Critical Mosaic: South Asia. Broad Street Books.

Robertson, Tom. 28. “The insect that changed Nepal’s history.” Nepali Times. 2018 March. https:// www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/the-mosquito-that-changed-nepals-history/.

Thapa, Bikash. 2010. World Trade Organisation and its Impact on Nepal. Kathmandu: SSRN.

Tiwari, Sudarshan Raj. n.d. Material Authenticity in Tradition of Conservation of Nepal. Kathmandu. Kailashkut.

—. 1991. Man and his House in the Himalayas. Kathmandu: National Centre for Scientific Research, France.

Uprety, Balram. 2017. “Presenting the Absence: A Contrapuntal Reading of the Maita in Nepali Tij Songs.” Journal of international women’s studies.

Vajrācārya, Mary Shepherd Slusser and Gautamavajra. 1974. “Two Medieval Nepalese Buildings: An Architectural and Cultural Study.” Artibus Asiae 169-218.

Vibha Bhattarai Upadhyay, Urmi Sengupta. 2016. Unsettling Modernity : Shifting Values and changing housing styles in the Kathmandu Valley. Open House International.

Weiler, Katharina Maria Lucia. 2009. The Neoclassical Residences of the Newars in Nepal. Transcultural Flows in the Early 20th Century Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. Heidelberg: University of Heilderberg.

Weise, Kai. 2006. Cultural Portrait Handbook. Kathmandu: UNESCO.

Whitmarsh, Bryony. 2018. Reflecting political allegiances through the study of the Narayanhiti Palace. Research Portal UK.

Yukio Nishimura, Takefumi Kurose and Ruprama Rai. 2013. “The Kenzo Tange Master Plan.” In Sacred Garden of Lumbini, by UNESCO, 106-131.Kathmandu: UNESCO.

Karmakar, Ipshita. Gupte, Rupali. 2020. "Nepal: A Spatial Analysis.". School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai. India.



Talks


Mishra, Roshan. “A Repository of Nepal's Architectural Heritage.” SEA Conversations: South Asian Landscapes, School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, India, July 10, 2020.

Adhikary, Nripal. “Building Craft as Rebellion.” SEA Conversations: South Asian Landscapes, School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, India, July 17, 2020.




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