Kamal P Malla

Kamal Prakash Malla was a linguist, historian and an essayist. His writings are collected in The Road to Nowhere and From Literature to Culture.

Bahunvada: Myth or reality?

ARCHIVE: The Kathmandu essayist on the history of ethnic hierarchy in modern Nepal (1992).

By Kamal P Malla

/ 19 Nov 2018

The king’s song

The military tune that became the anthem.

By Kamal P Malla

/ 1 Jun 2003

“The Road to Nowhere”

(The following is adapted from Professor Kamal Prakash Malla's article "The Intellectual in Nepalese Society", originally carried by Vasudha magazine in March 1970, and subsequently included

By Kamal P Malla

/ 1 Sep 1994

Bāhunvāda: Myth or Reality?

After 25 years of persevering belligerence, Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered the three cities of the Kathmandu Valley in 1769. One year later, on 23 March, he shifted his capital to

By Kamal P Malla

/ 1 May 1992