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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- © 2023 Dendup Chophel
- ISSN
- 1740-9314
- eISSN
- 1444-2213
- DOI
- 10.1080/14442213.2023.2213542
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2023 Book Review KARMA URA Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023 Dasho Dr Karma Ura’s ambitious two-volume book, aptly titled Bhutan: The Unre- membered Nation, covers the whole gamut of the country’s political, military, literary, economic, and other social histories that are now rapidly being forgotten and ‘unre- membered’. A shorter version of the manuscript was submitted as a PhD thesis to Nagoya University in Japan. The author was the first Bhutanese to study at Oxford University and the University of Edinburgh. The book represents a landmark in Bhutanese publication history as the first by a Bhutanese to be published by Oxford University Press. Dedicated to the Crown Prince of Bhutan born in 2016, the 832-page book describes a Bhutan that will largely be forgotten and ‘unremembered’ by the time the prince ascends to the throne of the Dragon King, or Druk Gyalpo. This ethnohistory is a defence of the putatively superior qualities of pragmatism, resilience, and versatility of the country’s historical livelihood and socio-economic strategies in opposition to the Procrustean planning frameworks of modern develop- ment planners whose worldviews and skillsets are limited by their narrow sectoral boundaries and inapt education received in
Journal
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology – Taylor & Francis
Published: Oct 20, 2023