Studies in historical documents from Nepal and India / edited by Simon Cubelic, Axel Michaels, Astrid Zotter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cubelic, Simon, editor.

Michaels, Axel, editor.

Zotter, Astrid, editor.

Series:

Documenta Nepalica.

Documenta Nepalica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nepal--History.

Nepal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 535 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), [2018]

Summary:

Deals mainly with South Asian documents from the premodern period. Covers topics such as the diplomatics of document writing, legal practices, administration, state-making, and religious life. Many of the articles in the present volume deal with specifc source materials preserved in the National Archives of Nepal.

Contents:

Foreword / Saubhagya Pradhananga

Editors' Preface

Studying Documents of South Asia: An Introduction / Simon Cubelic, Axel Michaels, Astrid Zotter

Towards a South Asian Diplomatics: Cosmopolitan Norms and Regional Idioms in the Use of Documents / Timothy Lubin

Digital Diplomatics: The Evolution of a European Tradition or a Generic Concept? / Georg Vogeler

Producing 'South Asian' Tibetan Documents in Highland Nepal, 19th to 20th Centuries: The Emergence and Disappearance of a Local Diplomatic Tradition / Charles Ramble

Waking History Up from the Chronological Nightmares: A Perspective from the Medieval Newari Historiography / Yogesh Raj

The Collective Sponsorship of the Renovations of the Svayambhucaitya in the Later Malla Era, and Its Documentation in Historical Records / Alexander von Rospatt

Networking Digital Documents / Christiane Sibille

Poet Vaṃśamaṇi Pays off His Share in the Father's Debt: A 17th-Century Debt-Clearance Certificate from Mithilā / Diwakar Acharya

Documents of Property Right in Early Modern Western India / Rosalind O'Hanlon

Documented Evidence Relating to the Implementation of the Mulukī Ain in Mid-19th Century Nepal / Rajan Khatiwoda

Are Hindu Women Allowed to Erect a Śivaliṅga? A Question Asked in a Letter to Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Dated 1863 CE / Axel Michaels

Governing Economic Life in Rāṇā Nepal: The Tender Process for the Gambling License at the Market Square of Asan in 1902 / Simon Cubelic

Some Unpublished Gorkhali Documents and Early British Records: The Example of the Seṇū Jośī Community / Maheshwar P. Joshi, Madan Mohan Joshi

The Silent History of the Tharu Farmers: Peasant's Mobility and Jungle Frontiers in the Light of Written Archives / Gisèle Krauskopff

Munsīs in the Courts of Early Śāha and Rāṇā Rulers: The Career of Lakṣmīdāsa Pradhāna / Manik Bajracharya

The Mālik in Rāmānandī Documents of the 18th and 19th Centuries / Monika Horstmann

Ascetics in Administrative Affairs: Documents on the Central Overseers of Jogīs and Saṃnyāsīs in Nepal / Christof Zotter

Conquering Navarātra: Documents on the Reorganisation of a State Festival / Astrid Zotter

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