15 specialist essays. part. one focusses on Pokhara, urban hub in West Bengal,
on urbanization, ethnicity; part two, marriage, kinship, covers variety of
issues including Maoist insurgency; part three, transnational links, on Gurkhga
soldiers, tourists, migrant workers, ethnic movements; part four, comparisons
between Indian and Nepalese HImalayas. major new collection featuring scholars
from Japan, Nepal, India, Europe and America.