One comes away from Kesar Lall's tales and essays with a sense of knowing Nepal much better.
Richard Critchfield Author of Villages, Those Days, An American looks at Britain.
The first book about Nepal in the English language, written by Colonel William Kirkpatrick and entitled "An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal, Being the Substance of Observations Made During a Mission to that Country in the Year 1783" was published in 1811 in London. A century later, in 1912, Percy Brown's "Picturesque Nepal" appeared, also in London, followed in 1928 by Percival Landon's "Nepal" in two volumes with a quotation from Marco Polo: "The country is wild and mountainous and is little frequented by strangers."
Marco Polo had not come to Nepal but it was possible that he had met with Arniko, the famous Nepalese architect in the court of Kublai Khan. Landon himself did not travel beyond the Kathmandu valley but he was provided with a great deal of material by the then Prime Minister, Maharja Chandra Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana (1901-29). Explaining Nepal's policy of isolation to Landon, the Maharaja said: "My friend, the English have at times difficulty in the government of India.
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