John Francis Whelpton (born 24 March 1950) is a historian and linguist and a specialist in the

history of Nepal Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multiracial, multicultural, multi-religious, and multilingual country. The most spoken language is Nepali followed by several other ethnic languages. The modern day Kingdom of Nepal was established in 1768 and star ...

about which he has written a number of books.John Whelpton: From Oxford, to Nepal, to Hong Kong.
Cindy Mak. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 13 June 2017.

Selected publications

*''Jang Bahadur in Europe: The First Nepalese Mission to the West''. Sahayogi Press, Kathmandu, 1983. *''Nepal''. Clio Press, Santa Barbara, 1990. *''Nepal: Bibliography''. 1990. (World bibliographical series) *''Kings, Soldiers, and Priests: Nepalese Politics and the Rise of Jang Bahadur Rana, 1830-1857'', Manohar Publications, New Delhi, 1991. *''Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu State: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal''. 1996. (Studies in Anthropology and History) (With David N. Gellner) *''Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal''. Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1997. (Editor) *''People, Politics & Ideology: Democracy and Social Change in Nepal''. Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu, 1999. *''A History of Nepal''.

University of Cambridge Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessm ...

, Cambridge, 2005. *''Celebrating 50 Years of VSO in Nepal''. 2014. (With Anne Seymour) *''The Other Side of the Hill: Learning Cantonese as a Second Language in Hong Kong''. 2017.

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*http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1187369/linguist-discovers-new-papal-pickle Living people 1950 births People from Nottingham Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Alumni of SOAS University of London Alumni of the University of Hong Kong Historians of Asia {{UK-historian-stub