Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India

This volume is the outcome of the conference ¿Studying Documents in Pre-Modern
South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective¿, held in October 2014 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.