Nepal: Maps/Media

Created by Dr. William A. Bowen, professor emeritus of the Department of Geography at California State University Northridge. The atlas contains over 700 computer generated panoramas that portray every square foot of the vast range between Arunachal Pradesh on the east and Uttar Pradesh on the west.

Digital Himalaya. Elements of larger maps compiled by Shangri-La Maps in Kathmandu, Nepal.

by Joseph E. Schwartzberg, 2nd impression, 1992. Digital South Asia Library

Eiu.com country report.

United Nations Geospatial Information Section

Digital Himalaya. Maps created from GIS layers produced by Kabindra Joshi, Kathmandu, Nepal, customizable by district, features, and display format.

Digital Himalaya. Photographs and films from Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet taken by Frederick and Margaret Williamson between December 1930 and August 1935.

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. South Asia repositories include EXC Sontheimer, SAI Benares-Exkursion 2010, SAI South Asian Archaeology, SFB-619 A2 Übergangsrituelle in Nepal, SFB-619 A4 Rituelles Theater in Uttarakhand, and SFB-619 Hofrituale in Rajasthan.

A comprehensive education and research database and virtual museum of Himalayan art from throughout the world.

Australian National University, Open Research Library. These 50 photographs depict scenes of the shikar, or hunt; the hunted animals, and the hunting camps of King George V in the Tarai in December 1911. The photographs feature the wild animals of the Tarai including tigers, bears and rhinoceroses; the use of the elephant "hunting ring" technique; the activities of the mahouts (or elephant trainers/handlers) and shikaris (or hunters), as well as the various dignitaries involved in the visit.

Digital Himalaya. A multimedia archive of ethnographic records collected from 1969 to the present by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison in the Gurung village of Thak, located in central Nepal. Includes photographs from Thak; a slide show of recent images from Thak; film clips on ritual and rice production; and film clips of anti-witchcraft and healing rituals in central Nepal among the Gurings.

Designed by Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, the project was established in December 2000. From 2002 to 2005, the project moved to the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University and began its collaboration with the University of Virginia. From July 2014, the project has relocated to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and is engaged in a long term collaboration with Sichuan University.

Digital Himalaya. Includes various trailers, and some complete films including the Lepcha film Tendong Lho Rum Faat, Glance of Genius: The Life and Work of B.H. Hodgson, the Minhe Mangghuer Torch Festival, images from Danba, the Alama Ritual, and the Wutu Collection. Locations include China/Tibet, India and Nepal.

Digital Himalaya. Selected film clip excerpts, including Alan Macfarlane's 1987 interview with Fürer-Haimendorf, excerpts from The Land of the Gurkhas depicting Gurung girls in trance during the gato ritual (filmed 1957), excerpts from a field trip to the Apa Tani Valley in Arunachel Pradesh depicting rope swinging, sacrifice, shamanic rituals, and village life (filmed 1944-1945), and an excerpt from Among the Sherpas of Nepal (filmed 1971). The Fürer-Haimendorf film collection is located in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Digital Himalaya. includes songs from Laya, Bhutan; Thangmi songs from Nepal; Yari Aso's songs, the Mangghuer Folktale Literature, and songs from Gcig sgril County, from Qinghai Province; the Jizong and Minyak collections from Sichuan and songs from Tha Rgyas in Tibet.

Digital Himalaya. A collection of photographs, films, linguistic data, field notes, newspaper clippings, audio files, and other data about the Thangmi ethnic group of northeastern Nepal. Links to an online trilingual Thangmi - Nepali - English Unicode dictionary (and pdf version)