heiUP_OAPEN_Documenta-Nepalica-3_book.pdf

The topic of slavery is largely under-represented in the historiography of Nepal. This source book, aware of this disparity and wishing to encourage future studies on the topic, provides the reader with editions, translations and a study of selected documents and legal texts of Nepal from the period...

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Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) 2023
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1003
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Περίληψη:The topic of slavery is largely under-represented in the historiography of Nepal. This source book, aware of this disparity and wishing to encourage future studies on the topic, provides the reader with editions, translations and a study of selected documents and legal texts of Nepal from the period of the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. These sources are concerned with such different aspects of slavery as donations, transactions, bondservitude, forced labour, emancipation, and law.