People-to-People Contact in South Asia
by Navnita Chadha Behera, Victor Gunawardena, Shahid Kardar, Raisul Awal Mahmood
Manohar, Delhi, 2000, 143 pp., INR 270
After spending much of 2000 d ing
The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland by Willem van Schendel, Wolfgang Mey Aditya Kumar Dewan White Lotus Press, Bangkok, 2000 ISBN: 974-8434-98-2
A pictorial narrative of an unexplained
The Conditions of Listening: Essays on Religion, History and Politics in South Asia
by Richard Burghart
Edited by C. J. Fuller and Jonathan Spencer
Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1996
Laxuman Gurung was awarded the Victoria Cross for his performance in the Burma Front in 1945. He lost his right arm and much of his hearing during the medal-winning action.
Nepali and non-Nepali modern-day historians of Nepal have a lot to answer for.
Two decades ago, addressing a gathering of social scientists in Kathmandu. historian Ludwig R Stiller declared that
In 1974, seven years before the forma! study of sociology and anthropology by Nepali scholars had even begun, Khem Bahadur Bista asked the "Nepalese authorities to consider whether to
