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=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Dor Bahadur Bista (Nepali: डोर बहादुर बिस्ट) (born ca. 1924-1926) is the best-known anthropologist, social scientist and activist of Nepal.[1][2] He has published such popular books as Fatalism and Development: Nepal's Struggle for Modernization and People of Nepal. He was born in Jaruwarasi, Patan, Nepal. He is considered the father of Nepalese anthropology.<br />Sources vary regarding Bista's date of birth. Some say he was born around 1924,[3] others in 1926.[1] He graduated from Patan High School, after which he attended Tri Chandra College. He completed his Certificate in Indian Ethnography in London.<br />While working as a government headmaster in a girls' high school in Patan, Bista became a research assistant to Professor Christoph Furer-Haimendorf of London University who was conducting field research in the area of Solukhumbu.[4] He later claimed that it was this experience that ignited his interest in Anthropology.<br />In 1972 he was sent to Lhasa in Tibet as Nepal's Counsel General.<br />He established an organization called Karnali Institute in Jumla.<br />In January 1995, Bista mysteriously disappeared from Jumla District, being last seen boarding a bus to Chisapani[disambiguation needed][5] or Dhangarhi.[1] His wife, Narayani, with whom he had a son, died soon after.[3]<br />The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, which took over from the Nepal Studies Association of which Bista had been Honorary President, awards a prize named after him on an annual basis.[6]<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
1967. People of Nepal. Kathmandu: Department of Publicity, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, His Majesty’s Government of Nepal. <br />1971. People of Nepal (book) (with a new chapter on Dhangar). Second edition. Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar. <br />1972. Sabai Jatko Fulbari. Kathmandu: Sajha Prakashan. <br />1979. Report from Lhasa. Kathmandu: Sajha Prakashan. <br />1988. Past, Present and Future of Nepal. Unpublished manuscript. <br />1991. Fatalism and Development: Nepal's Struggle for Modernization. Calcutta: Orient Longman. <br />1996. People of Nepal (with a new chapter on Khasha). Sixth edition. Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar. <br />2002. Sabai Jatko Fulbari . Kathmandu: Himal Books. (Introduction By Harka Gurung).<br />
=== House Publications ===
