A Study in Nepali Economic History

to the mid-nineteenth. It deals with the economic aspect of the people's life in the belief that this is the aspect that concerns their very survival, and, as such, governs the nature of their life in other aspects too. It is concerned with such general phenomena as affect the life of the people from the economic viewpoint and not with particular incidents or personalities as subjects of intrinsic interest. Rather, it concentrates of the facts of economic life with the objective of determining the stage, nature and pace of economic development, and of identifying specific factors inducing or retarding economic progress. The book starts with a general account of the kingdom of Nepal, the process of political unification after the mid-eighteenth century and th…