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An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul is the description of the Kingdom of Nepal in the late eighteenth century. It covers the en route to Kathmandu and other regions in Nepalese country. It is a first-hand account offered by a British official posted in the region in 1793 when the Nepalese kingdom sought help from the British following the Chinese incursion in Kathmandu and the existing dispute with Tibet. This book offers Nepal’s historical sketch, the economic systems, military organization, and judicial system followed during the reign of the Nepal kingdom. Kirkpatrick discusses the temple towns and village life, customs, and mannerisms of the Nepalese people. The book also covers the language, tribal communities, numismatics, and religion of the country.
About the Author Colonel Kirkpatrick (1754-1812), officially known as William Kirkpatrick, was an English East India Company officer, diplomat, and orientalist. He was an Persian interpreter in the East India Company army and served as Resident in princely states of Scindias and the Nizams of Hyderabad. He authored books like Grammar of the Hindoo Dialect and an Arabic and Persian Vocabulary (1782) and the Diary and Letters of Tippoo Sultaun (184), which is a collection of English translated works written in Persian attributed to the Mysore ruler.
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