As it concerns religious, political and historical aspects of Nepalese society, Heritage Preservation and Rights in Nepal: The Newar Language, Culture and Rituals should appeal to everyone interested in South Asia, castes, ethnic nationalism, anthropology, Buddhism and Hinduism.

Heritage Preservation and Rights in Nepal: The Newar Language, Culture and Rituals, Bal Gopal Shrestha, Vajra Publications, Paperback, 322 pages, $15.00

BAL GOPAL SHRESTHA (PhD, Leiden, 2002) authored The Sacred Town of Sankhu: The Anthropology of Newar Rituals, Religion and Society in Nepal (2012, pbk. 2013) and The Newars of Sikkim: Reinventing Language, Culture and Identity in the Diaspora (Vajra Books 2015) to mention but two English publications. He served as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (UK) and at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden, the Netherlands).