THE VEDIC PEOPLE
Their History and Geography
Rajesh Kochhar
Orient Longman, Hyderabad
2000, Paperback, 259 pp
ISBN 81 250 1080 7
IRs 275
By Rhoderick Chalmers
The search for origins
Himalayan Waters: Promise and Potential. Problems and Politics
by Shim Subba,
Panos South Asia, 2001
This is an excellent and beautifully illustrated handbook on everything anyone may want to know
IUNBECOMING CITIZENS: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan
Michael Hutt
Oxford University Press, New Delhi
2003, Hardcover, 308 pp
An engineer-turned-social auditor produces a book for the classroom that comprehensively critiques the certitudes of the global and South Asian water technocracy.
Foreign Aid and Politics in Nepal: A Case Study
Eugene Bramer Mihaly.
2002.(Originally published by Oxford University Press 1965).
It is a moot point whether Nepal consumes aid or
As the title of Indian journalist P Sainath's book, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, suggests, disasters are lucrative for the relief bureaucracy and its retinue of supply contractors
Slumming India: A Chronicle of Slums and Their Saviours
by Gita Dewan Verma
Penguin Books India, 2002, New Delhi, paperback, pp xxiv + 183, INR 200;
ISBN 0-14-302875-8
"What are
On 17 January 2003, Nepal's government lifted a five-year-old ban on Nepali women going to Persian gulf countries to work following a supreme court ruling that the ban
