The following is a select list of books on Bhutan.Click on Details to see complete table of contents of the book and excerpts from the jacket/preface. All books are in hardcover unless specified pbk (for paper back edition)

 

Updated September, 2008

Bhutan : Past and Present (A Sociological Study)/Ranjit Deb Barman. Kolkata, Sagnik Books, 2008, x, 156 p., ISBN 81-903330-6-2. Details No. 57549

Administrative System in Bhutan : Retrospect and Prospect/Dhurba Rizal. Delhi, Adroit Publishers, 2002, xxii, 285 p., tables, figs., $28. ISBN 81-87392-28-2.  Details No. 25830

Assam--Bhutan Trade Relations 1865-1949 : A Socio-Economic Study/Smriti Das. Delhi, Anshah Pub., 2005, 110 p., $15. ISBN 81-8364-004-4.  Details No. 41305

Bamboos of Sikkim (India) Bhutan and Nepal/Punya P. Poudyal. Kathmandu, New Hira Books Enterprises, 2006, xviii, 278 p., tables, figs., $30 (pbk). ISBN 99946-49-16-7.  Details No. 55073

Bhutan : Decentralization and Good Governance/Dhurba P. Rizal. Delhi, Adroit, 2001, xi, 84 p., $11. ISBN 81-87392-24-X. Details No. 21233

Bhutan : Ethnic Identity and National Dilemma/A.C. Sinha. Reprint 1998, xxiii, 266 p., $19. ISBN 81-7510-059-1. Details No. 13866

The Bhutan Himalaya : A Geological Account/edited by O.N. Bhargava. Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1995 (released in 1997), 245 p., col. plates, $157. [Special Publication 39].  Details No. 12501

Bhutan : 100 Years of Wangchuck Vision/Shubhi Sood. Noida, SDS pub., 2008, x, 178 p., 87 colour photographs, $95. ISBN 81-902828-1-9.  Details No. 57090

Bhutan : Kingdom in the Himalaya/Sanjay Acharya. 1999, 96 p., col. plates, $36. ISBN 81-7436-061-1. Details No. 14419

Bhutan : A Kingdom in the Sky/M.S. Kohli. New Delhi, Vikas, 2004, 148 p., $95. ISBN 81-259-1576-1. Details No. 34024

Bhutan : Kingdom of the Dragon/Robert Dompnier. New Delhi, 1999, 177 p., Colour Photos, $88. ISBN 962-8711-02-4. Details No. 15183

Bhutan Through the Ages/edited by Norbu Ramphel. 1999, 3 vols, 692 p., $132 (set). ISBN 81-261-0209-8 (set). Details No. 14872

Bhutan : Towards a Grass-root Participatory Polity/Bhabani Sen Gupta. 1999, 210 p., figs., $21. ISBN 81-220-0547-0. Details No. 14572

The Birds of Bhutan/Salim Ali, Biswamoy Biswas and S. Dillon Ripley. Reprint. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2002, 207 p., 22 plates, $28 (pbk). ISBN 81-85874-63-8. (Occasional Paper No. 136).  Details No. 29023

The Drukpa Mystique : Bhutan in 21 Century/Jaiwanti Dimri. Delhi, Authorspress, 2004, xii, 188 p., $25. ISBN 81-7273-156-6. Details No. 34018

Encyclopaedia of Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet/Anil Kathuria. New Delhi, Anmol, 2007, 3 Vols., xxxiv, 926 p., $130 (set). ISBN 81-261-3373-4.  Details No. 53130

Encyclopaedia of Sikkim and Bhutan/edited by S.K. Sharma and Usha Sharma. New Delhi, Anmol, 3 volumes, 796 p., tables, $129 (set). ISBN 81-7488-489-9.  Details No. 12636

Encyclopaedia of South Asia : Bhutan/S.K. Khanna and K.N. Sudarshan. New Delhi, A.P.H., 1998, vii, 258 p., $33. ISBN 81-7024-921-X.  Details No. 12801

Foreign Policy of Bhutan/Rajesh S. Kharat. New Delhi, Manak Pub., 2005, xii, 282 p., $35. ISBN 81-7827-110-9.  Details No. 39359

Fungi of Bhutan : Myxomycota, Leotiales, Pezizales, Xylariales and Holobasidiomycetideae/J.B. Prasher. 1999, 120 p., $33.  Details No. 14575

Geography of a Himalayan Kingdom : Bhutan/Neil Fraser, Anima Bhattacharya and Bimalendu Bhattacharya. New Delhi, Concept, 2001, xvi, 213 p., $20. ISBN 81-7022-887-5.   Details No. 21467

Himalayan Kingdom Bhutan : Tradition, Transition and Transformation/A.C. Sinha. New Delhi, Indus, 2001, 260 p., $25. ISBN 81-7387-119-1.  Details No. 20510

Indo-Bhutan Relations and China Interventions/Lal Babu Yadav. New Delhi, Anmol, 1996, 222 p., $20. ISBN 81-7488-218-9.   Details No. 11898

In the Shadow of the Himalayas : Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal and Sikkim : A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908/Kurt Meyer and Pamela Deuel Meyer. Ahmedabad, Mapin Pub., 2005, 190 p., plates, map, $90. ISBN 81-88204-25-0.  Details No. 43445

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries : Bhutan 1837–1838/William Griffith. Reprint. New Delhi, AES, 2003, viii, 116 p.,$11.  ISBN 81-206-1696-0.   Details No. 30243

Lands of the Thunderbolt Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan/Earl of Ronaldshay. Reprint. First published in London, 1923. Delhi, Asian Educational Services, 2000, 267 p., plates, $33. ISBN 81-206-1504-2.  Details No. 17602

Lhops (Doya) of Bhutan : An Ethnographic Account/B. Deben Sharma. New Delhi, Akansha, 2005, xxi, 261 p., tables, maps, plates, $42. ISBN 81-8370-006-3.  Details No. 41364

Money and Microenterprises in Bhutan : The Land of Zorig Chug Sum Thirteen Arts and Crafts/Saamdu Chetri and Samirendra Nath Dhar. New Delhi, Sterling, 2005, xix, 293 p., tables, figs., $35. ISBN 81-207-2766-5.  Details No. 39712

Oaks of India, Nepal and Bhutan/S.S. Negi and H.B. Naithani. Dehra Dun, International, 1995, 266 p., 35 plates, $37. ISBN 81-7089-233-3.  Details No. 11753

Politics and Women Empowerment in the Himalayan States/edited by K.S. Gulia. Delhi, Isha Books, 2007, 392 p., tables, $50. ISBN 81-8205-424-9. [Himalaya Past and Present Series].   Details No. 51780

Rediscovering Bhutan/M.N. Gulati. New Delhi, Manas Pub., 2003, 415 p., photographs, $44. ISBN 81-7049-156-8.   Details No. 31493

Sikhim and Bhutan : Twenty-one Years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908/J. Claude White. Reprint. First published : London, 1909. New Delhi, Asian Educational Services, 1996, xix, 332 p., maps, plates, $33. ISBN 81-206-1183-7.  Details No. 11499

Understanding Development, Conflict and Violence : The Cases of Bhutan, Nepal, North-East India and the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh/Dhurba Rizal and Yozo Yokota. New Delhi, Adroit Pub., 2006, 640 p., tables, figs., $55. ISBN 81-87392-68-1.  Details No. 44685