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Pages in category "File-Class Nepal pages" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 289 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1906, the Rana regime banned Nepal Bhasa, Nepal Era and Nepal Lipi from official use as part of its policy to subdue them, and the script fell into decline. Authors were also encouraged to switch to Devanagari to write Nepal Bhasa because of the availability of moveable type for printing, and Nepal Lipi was pushed further into the background ...
The arrival of Lain Singh Bangdel (1919–2002) in 1961 marks as an introduction to Modern Art in Nepal. He brought with him, the exposure to Modern art movements from Paris to a country which was slowly opening to the world only after 1950s. With the patronage of King Mahendra, Lain Singh Bangdel introduced abstract art to the Nepali audience.
A letter from Tibetan Governor to a Nepalese official written on lokta paper (c. 1887) Lokta paper, also known as Nepali kagaj or Nepali paper, is a wildcrafted, handmade artisan paper indigenous to Nepal. It is made from the bark of two of the species of the shrub Daphne. The paper was used historically in Nepal for religious scriptures and ...
Pratapaditya Pal is an Indian scholar of Southeast Asian and Himalayan art and culture, specializing particularly in the history of art of India, Nepal and Tibet.He has served as a curator of South Asian art at several prominent US museums including Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, where he has organized more than 22 major ...
Nepal Bharat Library or more generally called the Indian Library is run by the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. The library was called Nepal-Bharat Sanskritik Kendra till 2005. The library was established in 1951 after India set up the diplomatic relation with Nepal (13 June 1947) with an aim to enhance and strengthen cultural relations and ...
Sajha Publications was established in 1913 (1970 BS) by the then-prime minister of Nepal, Chandra Shumsher as Gorkha Bhasa Prakashani Samiti (Gorkha Language Publishing Committee). It was renamed as Nepali Bhasa Prakashani Samiti (Nepali Language Publishing Committee) in 1933 (1990 BS).
Bangdel was born in 1919 in Darjeeling, India to a family from Khotang district of Eastern Nepal.His father was Rangalal Rai, and his mother's name was Bimala Rai. [1] He spent his youth in a Himalayan village and, later, graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Calcutta in 1945 with a first-class-first.