does anyone know of any good source where i can find info on policies in Nepal before Mahendra's regime? i can only find those documented after mahendra's regime, like the 5 yr development plan.

Lets meet so we can talk about it. Where can I see you? Name the place I will be there and we will go back to the history..So how have you beeeen by the way,,busy I guess.

try Sardar Bhim Bahadur Pandey's "tyas bakhat ko Nepal".. another would be to look at, although it might not have a lot on policy stuff is, "With a King in the Clouds" by Erica leuchtag.

I have only read Bhim Bahadur Pandey's 4 volume book.

You got to be specific.. aba k policy, kasko policy khojeko.. koon period ko.. then it will be easier for us to be of your assistance.

another would be to look at= another book to look at

thank you IF, i wanted documented data/articles on ethnic and economic policies after prithivi narayan shah's unification. it could be in the form of laws implemented; mahendra's muluki ain. i guess i've to dig into some old scriptures :(

Sanjays, i'd meet you to talk history, but i've other priorities :P

i was lookin on some information on King Mahendra's Policies, like the gaau farka abhiyaan and all those ... is there a site with the history of nepal anywhere??

I read a review paper of past five decades published on Heidelberg Papers in South Asian
and Comparative Politics (HPSACP) by Devkota, and it has comprehensive references that would be helpful to you.

DC_virus, do a google on Himalayan Research Center. Thank you Socialist, will look into that.

You might also want to look at Hamro Samaj Ek Adhyayan by Janak Lal Sharma..it has stuff on cultural issues.

You might also wnat to read this: Development of public administration in Nepal: Final report to the government of Nepal, by Merrill R Goodall

I haven't read it but I knew Prof. Goodal was involved with the HMG and was one of the first foreigner expats in Kathmnadu.

hank you IF, i wanted documented data/articles on ethnic and economic policies after prithivi narayan shah's unification. it could be in the form of laws implemented; mahendra's muluki ain. i guess i've to dig into some old scriptures :(

Hetterika, yo kitab ta birseko... PN shah pachi ko herne ho bhane ..

Nepal Nirukta, Gyanmani Nepal

Gorkha Durbar ko Itihas (or something like this) by dinesh pant

also the expats living then such as William Kirkpatrick etc wrote books on Nepal... exact title ta thaha chaina, but search for Willian Kirkpatrick.. might be of help with your project. I yhaven't read it either, but people say, it covers a lot..If I were looking for stuff after PN Shah, those were the books I'd look for.. just to get started.

but I knew Prof. Goodal = i know

dc_girl,

I don't know if you are still looking for these, but here is my partial list that might be of the period and issues you seem to be interested in.

---

Bista, Dor Bahadur. 1991. Fatalism and development. Nepal?s struggle for modernization. Nepal: Sahayogi Press. [my comment: as much as some people love to hate him, this book certainly provides ?a perspective? on the complexity of Nepali societies]

Caplan, Lionel. 1970. Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu Tribal Relations. Berkley: University of California. [just an example from numerous books on Nepali ethnic groups... The ethnography part of the book is very interesting]

Guthman, Julie. 1997. Representing crisis: The theory of Himalayan environmental degradation and the project of development in post-Rana Nepal. Development and Change 28:45-69. [a post-structuralist take on the historiography of environmental debates in Nepal]

Hofer, A. 1979. The history of the Muluki Ain: The caste hierarchy and the state in Nepal: A study of the Muluki Ain of 1854. Innsbruck, Austria: Universitatsverlag Wanger.

Mahat, Tej B. S., David M. Griffin, and K. R. Shepherd. 1986. Human impact on some forests of the middle hills of Nepal 1. Forestry in the context of the traditional resources of the state. Mountain Research and Development 6:223-232. [an empirical study of how the state appropriated forest resources?]

Nancy Levine 1987. ?Caste, State, and Ethnic Boundaries in Nepal,? Journal of Asian Studies 46 (1), pp. 71-78. [an overview of state and ethnic relations]

Panday, Devendra Raj. 1999. Nepal's failed development : reflections on the mission and the maladies. Kathmandu: Nepal South Asia Centre. [personal accounts of Nepal?s development policies and plans]

Regmi, Mahesh C. 1971. A Study in Nepali Economic History: 1768-1846. New Delhi: Manjusri Publishing House.

----. 1976. Landowndership in Nepal. Berkely, CA: University of California Press. Mandala book points has new edition? [one of the classics? deals with the period of your interest]

Sharma, Prayag. 1997 (?).The State and society in Nepal: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Trends. [available at the Mandala Book Points]

Shrestha, Nanda R. 1997. In the name of development : a reflection on Nepal, Lanham, MD. : University Press of America. [another post-structuralist or should I say ?frustrated Marxist? perspective?]

Whelpton, John 1997. ?Political Identity in Nepal: State, Nation, and Community? in David Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, and John Whelpton (eds.) Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Contemporary Nepal. Amsterdam: Hardwood Academic Publishers, p. 75 (note 19).

Whelpton, John. 2005. A History of Nepal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[haven?t read this book yet, but have heard something very good about this book... ]

---------

Also look for

A manuscript by Kailash N. Pyakurel and Murari Subedi. ?Understanding Nepal?s Development? I found it on http://scholar.google.com with a key word ?Muluki Ain.? It has some relevant citations for you.

Rare Online Copies of Journals on the Himalaya on the Digital Himalaya. This is a great resources to journals on Nepal studies like Kailash, Contributions to Nepal Studies (CNAS), CNRS

The Nepal section, specially the Jung Bahadur chapter, of http://countrystudies.us/nepal