Simon Cubelic, Axel Michaels, Astrid Zotter (eds). 2018. Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India. Documenta Nepalica – Book Series 1. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. ISBN 978-3-946054-70-2 (PDF), 978-3-946054-71-9. 535 pp. (Hardcover) DOI:10.17885/heiup.331.454 [PDF 🔓]
Contents
Foreword by Saubhagya Pradhananga, Chief of the National Archives of Nepal … vii
Editors’ Preface … ix
Simon Cubelic, Axel Michaels and Astrid Zotter. Studying Documents of South Asia: An Introduction … 1
Diplomatics
Timothy Lubin. Towards a South Asian Diplomatics: Cosmopolitan Norms and Regional Idioms in the Use of Documents … 37
Georg Vogeler. Digital Diplomatics: The Evolution of a European Tradition or a Generic Concept? … 85
Charles Ramble. Producing ‘South Asian’ Tibetan Documents in Highland Nepal, 19th to 20th Centuries: The Emergence and Disappearance of a Local Diplomatic Tradition … 111
Documentary Practice
Yogesh Raj. Waking History Up from the Chronological Nightmares: A Perspective from the Mediaeval Newari Historiography … 137
Alexander von Rospatt. The Collective Sponsorship of the Renovations of the Svayambhūcaitya in the Later Malla Era, and Its Documentation in Historical Records … 163
Christiane Sibille. Networking Digital Documents … 193
Legal Practice
Diwakar Acharya. Poet Vaṃśamaṇi Pays off His Share in the Father’s Debt: A 17th-Century Debt-Clearance Certificate from Mithilā … 213
Rosalind O’Hanlon. Documents of Property Right in Early Modern Western India … 225
Rajan Khatiwoda. Documented Evidence Relating to the Implementation of the Mulukī Ain in Mid-19th-Century Nepal … 243
Axel Michaels. Are Hindu Women Allowed to Erect a Śivaliṅga? A Question Asked in a Letter to Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Dated 1863 CE … 271
Simon Cubelic. Governing Economic Life in Rāṇā Nepal: The Tender Process for the Gambling License at the Market Square of Asan in 1902 … 293
Administration
Maheshwar P. Joshi and Madan Mohan Joshi. Some Unpublished Gorkhali Documents and Early British Records: The Example of the Seṇū Jośī Community … 331
Gisèle Krauskopff. The Silent History of the Tharu Farmers: Peasant Mobility and Jungle Frontiers in the Light of Written Archives … 351
Manik Bajracharya. Munsīs in the Courts of Early Śāha and Rāṇā Rulers: The Career of Lakṣmīdāsa Pradhāna … 377
State and Religion
Monika Horstmann. The Mālik in Rāmānandī Documents of the 18th and 19th Centuries … 401
Christof Zotter. Ascetics in Administrative Affairs: Documents on the Central Overseers of Jogīs and Saṃnyāsīs in Nepal … 445
Astrid Zotter. Conquering Navarātra: Documents on the Reorganisation of a State Festival … 493
Notes on Contributors … 533