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...