16.1 · Nepal — History & the Present Republic
Roots, Context & My Century · 16.1
Everything my career, money and family plans sit on top of.
A History of Nepal
The standard one-volume English history: the Shah unification, the Rana autocracy, 1951, the Panchayat years, the 1990 restoration, the insurgency, the royal massacre. Start here — everything else in this domain assumes it.
Deepen
Section titled “Deepen”Battles of the New Republic
Part reportage, part history, part memoir: war to peace, monarchy to republic, Hindu kingdom to secular state. Reported from both Kathmandu’s power corridors and the Tarai. The best single account of the transition I grew up inside.
The Nepal Nexus
An inside account of the Maoists, the palace and New Delhi, by a leading Nepali editor. Originally Prayogshala — read it in Nepali if I can.
Reference
Section titled “Reference”Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy
History, the royal massacre, and a journey through the war-affected west. Personal and political at once.
The Rise of the House of Gorkha
How Prithvi Narayan Shah welded dozens of small kingdoms into one state — and therefore where Nepali nationalism actually comes from.