last updated on: Monday, 28 April 2014
Books for Review in HIMALAYA
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Adhikari, Prawin. The Vanishing Act: Stories. Rupa Publications, 2014.
Adhikari, Tulasi. Running from the Dreamland. Allwrite Publishing, 2014.
Akasoy, Anna, and Charles, Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit Burnett. Islam and Tibet: Interactions along
the Musk Routes. Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010.
Bera, Tilak Ranjan. Ladakh A Glimpse of the Roof of the World. Zen Publication, 2012. .
Canstein, Florens van Raab van. Travelling with the Master Pilgrimage into the Heartland of
the Yungdrung Bon Tradition. Vajra Publications, 2012.
Cilano, Cara. National Identities in Pakistan: The 1971 War in Contemporary Pakistani
Fiction. London; New York: Routledge, 2011.
Cilano, Cara N. Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State (Routledge
Contemporary South Asia Series). Routledge, 2013.
Dkon-mchog-yan-lag, and Karl Brunnhölzl. Gone beyond: The Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, the
Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyü Tradition.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2010.
Gellner, David N. Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia: Non-State Perspectives. Duke
University Press Books, 2013.
Goldstein, Melvyn C. A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 19551957 (Philip E. Lilienthal Books). University of California Press, 2013.
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Guneratne, Arjun, and Anita M Weiss. Pathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of South
Asia. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.
Heathershaw, John, and Edmund Herzig. The Transformation of Tajikistan: The Sources of
Statehood. London; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Hess, Julia Meredith. Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan
Diaspora. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Kalia, Ravi. Pakistan: From the Rhetoric of Democracy to the Rise of Militancy. London; New
York: Routledge, 2011.
Khan, Nichola. Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan: Violence and Practices of Transformation in the
Karachi Conflict. London: Routledge, 2009.
Kim, Jinah. Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in
South Asia (South Asia Across the Disciplines). University of California Press, 2013.
Kolkman, René and Stuart Blackburn. Tribal Architecture in Northeast India. Brill, 2014.
Kshatrī, Līla Bahādura, and Michael Hutt. Mountains painted with turmeric. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2008.
Lawoti, Mahendra, and Susan Hangen. Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal: Identities and
Mobilization after 1990. London; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Michael, Bernardo A. Statemaking and Territory in South Asia Lessons from the Anglo-Gorkha
War. Anthem Press, 2012.
Morgan, Llewelyn. The Buddhas of Bamiyan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
2012.
Mueggler, Erik. The Paper Road Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West
China and Tibet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Ostrowski, Wojciech. Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan. London; New York: Routledge, 2010.
Panthi, Arjun, Pratyoush Onta and Harsha Man Maharjan, eds. Nepali Magazineka 25 Barsha,
2046-2070 V.S. [Twenty five years of Nepali Magazines, in Nepali]. Chautari Book Series
77, 2013.
Pettigrew, Judith, and David N Gellner. Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil
War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
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Pistono, Matthew. Fearless in Tibet: The Life of the Mystic Tertön Sogyal. Hay House, 2014.
Powers, John and David Templeman, ed. Historical dictionary of Tibet. Lanham, Md.:
Scarecrow Press, 2012.
Qadeer, Mohammad A. Pakistan: Social and Cultural Transformation. London: Routledge,
2006.
Quintman, Andrew. The Yogin & the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s
Great Saint Milarepa. Columbia University Press, 2014.
Raj, Yogesh. Ruptures and Repairs in South Asia: Historical Perspectives. Chautari Book
Series 78, 2013.
Salgado, Nirmala S. Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female
Renunciant. Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.
Saxer, Martin. Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral
Economy of Tibetanness. Berghahn Books, 2013.
Schaeffer, Kurtis R, Matthew Kapstein, and Gray Tuttle. Sources of Tibetan Tradition. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Sharma, Mahesh. Western Himalayan Temple Records: State, Pilgrimage, Ritual and Legality
in Chambā. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009.
Sharma, Pitamber. Some Aspects of Nepal's Social Demography: Census 2011 Update.
Kathmandu: Social Science Baha, 2014.
Siddiqi, Farhan Hanif. The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir
Ethnic Movements (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series). Routledge, 2012.
Singh, Chetan, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, eds. Recognizing Diversity: Society and
Culture in the Himalaya. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Smadja, Joëlle, and Centre for Himalayan Studies (France). Territorial Changes and Territorial
Restructurings in the Himalayas. New Delhi: Published by Adroit Publishers in
association with Centre for Himalayan Studies, France: Distributors, Akhil Book
Distributors, 2013.
Smyer Yü, Dan. The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment.
London; New York: Routledge, 2012.
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Suba Chandran, D, and P. R Chari. Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2011: The Promise and
Threat of Transformation. London; New York: Routledge, 2012.
Suhrke, Astri. When More Is Less: The International Project in Afghanistan. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2011.
Sutherland, Patrick and Tsering, Tashi. Disciples of a crazy saint: The Buchen of Spiti. Pitt
Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, 2011.
Templeman, David. New Views of Tibetan Culture. Caulfield, Vic.: Monash University Press,
2010.
Toffin, Gérard. From Monarchy to Republic: Essays on Changing Nepal. Vajra Books, 2013.
Vitali, Roberto. Studies on the history and literature of Tibet and the Himalaya. Vajra
Publications, 2012.
Vitali, Roberto. A short history of Mustang (10th-15th century). India Amnye Machen Institute,
2012.
Walter, Michael L. Buddhism and Empire the Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet.
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009.
Warikoo, K. Himalayan Frontiers of India Historical, Geo-Political and Strategic Perspectives.
London; New York: Routledge, 2009.
Webb, Matthew J. Kashmir’s Right to Secede: A Critical Examination of Contemporary
Theories of Secession. London; New York: Routledge, 2012.
Weingeist, Rachel Perera, David Elliott, and Jamyang Norbu. Anonymous: Contemporary
Tibetan Art. SUNY, 2013.
Films
“Manakamana.” By Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, 2014.
“Sold.” By Jeffery Brown, 2014.
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