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About the Book:-In the present work the authors have attempted to give a picture of the country as a whole, and a description of the manners and customs of the various races inhabiting Nepal at the present time, a country very different to that of Brian Hodgson’s time, for the advances made even in the last thirty years are greater than during its whole history. Considering that the Indian Government has had intimate relations with Nepal for more than a century and a quarter, it is astonishing how little that country is known, even in India. The writers have met civilians and soldiers in different parts of India who have no conception of its conditions, and who knew, in fact, very little more than that the kingdom of Nepal, as it now is, occupies a stretch of the Himalayas ; and that in the Nepal Terai, the belt of forest at the foot of the hills, great shooting parties were sometimes given to Royalty, or other distinguished visitors. Besides giving a full account of what this intensely interesting country is like, the authors have provided full details of its government and of the life of its people. The illustrations, with the exception of one or two of the interior of Nepal, which were kindly supplied by the Darbar, are all from photographs taken on the spot. The book is planned in its structure, having 6 parts and 2 appendices. The book is profusely illustrated and given a map. It was originally published in 1928.