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Article: Whelpton, John. 2005. A History of Nepal.(Book review)
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- Contributions to Nepalese Studies
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- July 1, 2005
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Whelpton, John. 2005. A History of Nepal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0-521-80470-1 (paperbaek); 0-521-80026-9 (hardback). Price: 15.99 [pounds sterling] (paperback); 40.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback); NRs. 600.00 (South Asian Edition), pp. 296
John Whelpton is the editor and translator of an extraordinarily interesting book, Jang Bahadur in Europe, published in 1983, which depicts the first Rana prime minister's 1850 visit to Britain and France (Belait-yatra). As is well known, this journey provided for the first time an opportunity and occasion for face-to-face contact in a fully European atmosphere between the governing elites of two European ...