Studies in historical documents from Nepal and India / / edited by Simon Cubelic, Axel Michaels, Astrid Zotter.

• Superior document: Documenta Nepalica
• TeilnehmendeR: Cubelic, Simon,; Michaels, Axel,; Zotter, Astrid,
• Place / Publishing House: Heidelberg : : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Documenta Nepalica.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 535 pages) :; illustrations.

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.

Table of 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in Rāṇā Nepal: The Tender Process for the Gambling License at the Market Square of Asan in 1902 / Simon Cubelic -- Some Unpublished Gorkhali Documents and Early British Records: The Example of the Seṇū Jośī Community / Maheshwar P. Joshi, Madan Mohan Joshi -- The Silent History of the Tharu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 -- Notes on Contributors.