Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India by Cubelic, Simon; Michaels, Axel; Zotter, Astrid

Book Series: Documenta Nepalica: Book Series

Abstract

This volume is the outcome of the conference “Studying Documents in Premodern South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective”, held in October 2015 in Heidelberg. In bringing together experts from different fields—including Indology, Tibetology, History, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Digital Humanties—it aims at exploring and rethinking issues of diplomatics and typology, the place of documents in relation to other texts and literary genres, methods of archiving and editing documents, as well as their “social life”, i.e. the role they play in social, religious and political constellations, the agents and practices of their use, and the norms and institutions they embody and constitute.

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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
"On behalf of Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities."
Seventeen papers from the conference "Studying Documents in Pre-Modern South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective", held from 4 to 6 October 2015 in Heidelberg
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
Includes bibliographical references
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