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New Additions to History and Politics of India CatalogueEncyclopaedia of South Asia : Bhutan/S.K. Khanna and K.N. Sudarshan. 1998, vii, 258 p., $33.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Historical background. 3. Land and people. 4. Emergence of Bhutan. 5. Education. 6. Bhutan--a sovereign state. 7. Political history. 8. Social structure. 9. Government and society. 10. Religion and philosophy. 11. Agriculture. 12. Economic development. 13. 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, Bhutan 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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