Democratizing Monarch : A Memoir of Nepal's King Birendra/Francis G. Hutchins. Nepal, Vajra Pub., 2007, 140 p., (pbk). ISBN 99946-788-46.

    Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Birendra at Harvard, 1967-68. 3. The Auspicious wedding, 1970. 4. The auspicious consecration, 1975. 5. Nepal's Great Unifier Prithvinarayan Shah. 6. Surviving the Raj, 1775-1950. 7. The Shah restoration, 1950-2001. Dipendra. Prophecies. Parting.

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