April 2020
Opinion
The smallpox virus in British India
Irish-born painter Thomas Hickey’s painting in 1806 of three queens of Mysore where the royal woman on the right is […]
April 30, 2020
History of Disease
Big story of small pox in Nepal
hen we think of Nepal’s history, mostly political events jump to mind: the expansion of the Gorkhali state, Jang Bahadur’s […]
April 28, 2020
March 2020
Latest
Kathmandu in the time of cholera
Patan Darbar Square Photograph taken by Bourne and Sheperd in 1870. Photo: The British Library athmandu in the 1880s was […]
March 21, 2020
July 2019
African Americans in Cold War Nepal
George Brooks inspecting vegetable farm in the early 1950s. Photo: US NATIONAL ARCHIVES ace formed a contentious part of the […]
July 16, 2019
March 2018
The insect that changed Nepal’s history
Our sense of the country’s history expands when we think beyond the political OUTBREAK: Experimental spraying for mosquitos on inner […]
March 28, 2018
February 2018
Land reform in cold war nepal
The first US Ambassador came to Nepal 65 years ago this week to push for socio-economic reform All Photos: Chester […]
February 18, 2018