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Book Review: King and Political Leaders of Gorkha (1768-1814)

  M ahesh Chandra Regmi is eminent historian, researcher and scholar based in Nepal. He leaves behind a copious body of work which includes 14 books and scholarly works. Regmi’s Land Tenure and Taxation in Nepal was published in four volumes by UC Berkeley between 1963-68. A Study in Nepali Economic History 1768-1846, detailing the agrarian basis of Nepali society during unification, appeared in 1971. In 1976, Regmi published his seminal work, Landownership in Nepal. He also launched and successfully ran the weekly Nepal Press Digest, which became a journal of contemporary reporting. This book present chronological history as a study of change, the author claims that the impelling drive of change in socio-economic dynamics of the Gorkhali Empire of the eighteenth century is not wholly classified as triggered by the peasantry, conversely, the political tendency of the hill state of Gorkha to multiply its territories plays significant role. Then kings and some handful of reig...

Book Review: International Relation Theories, Discipline and Diversities

        C ollecting the intellectual affluence of International scholars from around the globes, the third edition of “International Relation Theories, Discipline and Diversities “ offers an           au courant and inclusive version of all the major theories of international relations, backing them with relevant case studies illustrations. Though some theories incorporate multifaceted conceptual paradigm, the authors successfully breaks it down to an average academia’s cup of tea, with the use of elementary interpretation technique, also making it as best introductory textbook to international relations theories. Besides some new discourses, like post-colonialism and environmentalism has been integrated to allow broader analysis of international conditioning and also to foster certain alternative dimension to understand world politics. Every chapters have been upgraded accordingly with recent published ...

Rise of Asia and New Global balance

I nternational dominance have historically sustained so long as great rising powers have agreed to them. When one or multiple great powers have challenged the prevailing system, the outcome has always been hegemonic war. Antique past cannot ignore the fact that hegemonic war, rather than diplomatic settlement, has framed almost every international fluctuation.   The last decade has witness a paradigm shift in industrial and economic supremacy slipping   away from former mega powers   of the US, France, UK. This change is palpable in   the growing   potential   of rising   Asian countries, particularly   the demographically loaded   countries like   India and China. Rise of Asia Since the beginning of mid-19 th century, west has endured it’s supremacy over global political economy.   But history repeals this phenomena; during 1700, Asia’s global GDP was 57.6% with china’s sole contribution of 22.3% and India’s 24.5% contrary...

Surrogate Mother

S urrogacy has become new buzz in Nepal with all the private agents being illegally involved in providing secret surrogacy service.     The shared border with India and feasible access inside country makes surrogacy an easy job for foreigners visiting Nepal. However, many couple find difficulty to go through legal process or afford cost in developed countries as a result they peruse cheaper options in less-regulated countries like Nepal, Thailand and India.      There exist two types of surrogacy:   While going through ‘traditional surrogacy’, the hired women acts as both the egg donor and actual surrogate for the embryo, and she is impregnated with a medical procedure termed as ‘intrauterine insemination’. In this operation, the doctor will implant biological father’s sperm into the surrogate's uterus so that fertilization takes place biologically. And with this mechanism the baby has a genetic link to the surrogate mother. Likewise, with gestation...