Nepal, Oct. 12 -- When it comes to the subject of research in Nepal, various academics have complained about the lack of research "culture", "quality" and funding in Nepal. With respect to the academic journals that publish the written outcomes of research in the social sciences broadly defined, I have critiqued their irregularity ("For a plural publication landscape", March 31, 2023) and the seemingly poor quality of the peer review process adopted by them ("Reading Nepali journals ", June 7, 2024). But let us pause-borrowing the words of historian Surabhi Pudasaini-in this narrative of lack. Writing about the "architecture of production in the Gorkhali Polity" from the late 18th to the mid-20th century in the journal Studies in Nepal Hi...