Adroit Publishers imprint: 69 books

This book in general focuses on unfolding this paradox of the Development-Conflict-Violence-Composite Factors nexus. It aims to contribute both to the understanding of this complex Development-Conflict-Violence-Composite Factors nexus and our ability to envision and construct a political and development process to unfold and unearth the paradox and resolve it.

All of them focus on the sociology-economic, political and cultural relationships of specific deprived groups with the rest of the society, in the context of their national and local social history.

The role of NGOs has been recognised as important to solve the multifarious problems and particularly to help improve the livelihood of the rural people. For achieving substantial and sustained poverty reduction, there is a need in the inclusion of civil society, non-governmental organisations and local...

Monetary system is a source of understanding the theory of the demand for and supply of money in monetary economics. This book is a revised form of the Ph. D. thesis submitted to the BHU, India in 1998. It takes into consideration of the theoretical and empirical approaches, which provide the core elements for monetary analysis.

Study on Sacred Complex of Lumbinī is a milestone in the history of the Buddhist World. It is useful in understanding the cultural role of the traditions, tourism development and modernization with the complexity of Buddhist civilization. The researcher has brought to light certain facts of pilgrimage,...

This book is based on the published books and articles, limited though they are, by various scholars. This also records the impression of personal visits and outcomes gained through numerous discussions with elderly Rajbanshis.

History is the major source of social sciences. Politics, Science, Economics and Sociology are its branches. Nepals secondary school and university level curriculum include each of these subjects. However, the students of history are not taught about the concept of history and its limitations.

This is the pioneer book on Tibetan Cooking. Its several editions were sold out in a very short span. It was well received and widely appreciated by those who have been interested in cookery. This edition is thoroughly revised and critically scrutinised. About 8 new recipes are also added. Some variations are also given.

Nepal is a country with different geographic regions. As such the food, especially the way it is prepared, varies from region to region. On account of the great impact of Indian and Tibetan foods as they have on Nepalese food, it is almost impossible to single out or compartmentalize the Nepalese style of cooking which does not border on one or the other of the two.

This book is the outcome of the various articles published in the standard journals and newspapers of Nepal. An attempt of collecting the various contributions made in the study of Nepalese economy from time to time in a single book is thought to provide a great help to the readers.

This book arose out of a research project funded by the Ministry of Overseas Development in the United Kingdom to investigate the economic and social effects of the building of three roads in West-Central Nepal.

Friends have long urged me to publish these worried and unhappy essays in book form. They said it was important that Nepalis, who either were too young to notice how things were falling apart, or too busy with their own pursuits to care, during those years, would be able to relive that era, see what...

This book has demonstrated that existing legally engineered conflict resolution systems of government organizations are expensive, pro-elite, and inaccessible to the poor and are heavily influenced by power and position. Therefore, they are not able to properly address social conflict in community.

Nepal is a confusing state at the crossroad, which can either take a path of more peaceful, democratic modern Nepal or to a path of failed state with anarchy and chaos. Which path to opt mainly depends upon the king, the Maoists and the political parties? They have only two choices. If they opt for...