1. The pre-history: Hodgson's mid-19th-century ethnographies (the first serious records of Nepal's peoples — an outsider administrator-scholar); the census (from 1911) as proto- ethnography.
2. The foreign-research era (1950–80s): the opened country studied by the world's anthropologists — village and ethnic studies (the classic monographs on Sherpa, Thakali, Newar, Limbu, Chhetri, and the Dalit experience; Dor Bahadur Bista — the Nepali pioneer: People of Nepal (1967), Nepal's first systematic ethnography, and Fatalism and Development (1991) — Sociology Unit 1.4's text).
3. Institutionalisation: the Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology, TU(1981 — the combined department, Sociology Unit 1.4's story), degrees, journals (the SASON tradition; the Dhaulagiri Journal in your reference list), the Nepal Studies Association network.
4. The present: Nepali anthropology's turn to its own questions — caste/ethnicity and exclusion, migration, development (Unit 7), federalism and identity (Unit 8) — and the "native anthropology" debate (studying one's own society: privilege and bias both) — with names such as Om Gurung, Krishna Bhattachan, Ganesh Man Gurung carrying the discipline's Nepali generation.