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Article: A History of Nepal.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- September 22, 2006
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A History of Nepal, by John Whelpton. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxiii, 296 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $ 24.99 US (paper).
Both in the light of recent Nepalese politics and the historiography of South Asia, John Whelpton's A History of Nepal is a timely introductory textbook. The news in the media about the People's Movement for Democracy in 1990, the Maoist insurgency (which since 1996 has taken the lives of more than ten thousand people), the massacre of the royal family in 2001, and this year's pro-democracy protests against the constitutional Hindu monarchy certainly shattered the well-established image of Nepal as a mountain Shangri-La. In a ...