Adroit Publishers imprint: 69 books

The fieldwork on which this collection of essays on peasants and workers in Nepal is based was undertaken in the mid-1970s, by an international team associated with the Overseas Development Group at the University of East Anglia. The fieldwork also gave rise to several other publications, including...

Nepal relating to Nepal-China relations some books are so far published. Although they provide some information on different aspects, they are the eye-openers to the researchers. They have inspired scholar like Dr. Manandhar to undertake extensive and intensive research work on the subject. The present...

The agenda of the restructuring of the state came to sharp focus during the Peoples War, 1996-2006. Other political parties, individual intellectuals and analysts embraced this agenda realizing that the origins of violence and setbacks suffered by democracy at the hands of the absolute monarchy are rooted...

This book is about Nepal Congress where Mohan Shamsher, son of Chandra Shamsher had delivered a speech leading the sons of Chandra Shamsher at a grand feast arranged in the palace after awarding punishment to the members and supporters of the Nepal Praja Parishad organised to abolish the Rana regime...

the people of Nepal, they argued that only a revolutionary armed struggle could create the basis for the overthrow and replacement of the corrupt and inadequate ruling classes by a popular democratic republic representing the workers and peasants of Nepal.

Hospitals were once charitable services; now they have become profitable industries. Once their users were the poor; now every hospital manager seeks the largest number of payers. Once the employees presumed that their rewards would come in Heaven; now they earn high incomes and have jobs rather than callings.

The Nepalese society at the beginning of the 21st century is passing through the greatest upheavals in its entire history in the form of the revolutionary Peoples War (PW) of the oppressed classes, regions, nationalities, gender and communities against the outmoded semi-feudal and semi-colonial social...

This volume, Nepal: An Historical Miscellany, contains materials on different aspects of Nepals social and economic history, as well as the religious and cultural life of the Nepali people. It is divided into six parts as follows: Law and Administration, Caste and Social Life, Land and Agriculture,...

Thatched Huts and Stucco Palaces: Peasants and Landlords in 19th-century Nepal is the first volume of a projected two-volume study of Nepals economic history during the nineteenth century. As the title indicates, it limits itself to a study of agrarian relations. The second volume will deal with finance and trade.

This attempt to study Nepali economic history during the period from 1768 to 1846 may require an explanation, but hardly any apology. There has no doubt been a spurt in historical writing in Nepal in recent years. The patience and perseverance of a number of individuals in discovering and bringing to...

This book has been written in the belief that if the men of the future are ever to break the chains of the present, they will have to understand the forces that forged them. Economic-development policies can be formulated and implemented effectively only if there is an adequate understanding of existing institutions, particularly agrarian institutions in countries such as Nepal.

This study has implications for policy making to augment food security of village households, particularly the vulnerable households. The findings suggest that health and skill of poor people should be enhanced to make them capable to secure the food. Similarly, villages should be selectively integrated...

The conceptual paradigm of agrarian relations has various components but the context in which it is used in this book denotes the basic relations between different hierarchies in the agrarian structure, analyzing their rights, duties, and privileges as well as, their respective roles in the production process.

The post-1990 was a period of transition in many ways. The Peoples Movement brought about a polity based on political plurality and broad freedom. The state-imposed conformity and authoritarianism under the Panchayat gave way to diversity and innovations. The period was accompanied by new paradigms and...