This book aims primarily at painting a comprehensive portrait of Nepal, between past and present. More specifically, it seeks to provide a better understanding of the recent tumultuous changes that have taken place in the country. Emphasis is laid on the rise of the individual, despite the remarkable resistance of traditional forms of belonging at family and caste level. The work of imagination in Nepalese society is of particularly interest. The author contends that mental images, the system of values, and ideological dimensions play a vital role in the cultural realm and political life. Similarly, religion is pivotal in the construction of selfhood and social life. From a methodological viewpoint, Imagination and Realities stands at the crossroads between anthropology, sociology and history. It is by combining these three different disciplines that the dialectics between local and global, particular and general can be most suitably considered.

This monograph is a record of the travels the author undertook to catalogue the antiquties and search for mss in the vernacular languages. There are 16 illustrations, many of which are of rubbings from steles and other sources. The latter aprt of the book gives a list of the over 350 mss that he collected during his travel in the winter of 1884 and 1885. this work is a reprint of the 1886 edition.

This Book presents, one hundred of the finest Tibetan paintings from the renowned Jucker Collection.

Starting with paintings of the historical Buddha and his emanations and followed by bodhisattvas, historical and mythological figures, protectors of the Buddhist law and tutelary deities, the last part of the book is devoted to rare Bardo paintings (divinities that appear to the deceased after death), black background scrolls and mandalas. The collection is especially strong in representations of fierce divinities of which thirty are reproduced and concludes with important scroll paintings from the Bon tradition.

The Book Deals With Money Demand And Currency Substitution Behaviour Of The Nepalese People In Business Transactions. It Incorporates Monetary Planning And Policy In Order To Achieve A Higher Level Of Output And Employment, Price Stability And A Satisfactory Level Of Payments. The Author Propounds The View That The Combination Of Monetary And ?scal Policy Is A More Potent Tool To Improve The Unfavourable Balance Of Payments And To Maintain Price Stability In The Nepalese Economy.