Day: June 28, 2007

By Pradyumna P. Karan. University of Kentucky Press, 1960. My thoughts… This book is a treasure. Particularly intriguing is where it sits in history. As the author points out, the year before this volume was published, King Mahendra proclaimed a new constitution for Nepal and the country had its first election. It was also around this time that His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet. Only a decade earlier, Nepal’s border were largely closed […]

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