Encyclopaedia of South Asia : Nepal/S.K. Khanna and K.N. Sudarshan. 1998, 262 p., $33.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Land and people. 3. Economic reconstruction. 4. Education. 5. Towards democracy. 6. Political background. 7. Coalition Government. 8. Quest for freedom. 9. Social structure. 10. Government and society. 11. Agriculture. 12. Foreign affairs. Index.
"The aim of this encyclopaedia of the countries of South Asia is, to make their worlds accessible to as wide a public as possible. At the same time there is the aim of offering new knowledge to the specialist. This volume, Nepal moreover, is arranged in chapters that readers may absorb a large chunk of knowledge, say in history or in culture, or even if they choose, try to embrace the encyclopaedia as a whole." (jacket)
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