Papers by Sanjog Rupakheti
Dependency and Slavery Studies , 2022
Law Addressing Diversity Premodern Europe and India in Comparison (13th-18th Centuries), 2017
Himalaya, The Journal of the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 2015
Since the mid-eighteenth century when armies serving the English East India Company (EIC) clashed... more Since the mid-eighteenth century when armies serving the English East India Company (EIC) clashed with the Gorkhali power, British officers depicted Nepal as an example of classical Hindu despotism. Subsequent scholars of the region have not quite challenged these representations, mostly taking such colonial descriptors as 'facts. '
Book Reviews by Sanjog Rupakheti
Studies in Nepali History and Society, 2023
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2020
Studies in Nepali History and Society, 2017
Books by Sanjog Rupakheti
Edited volume, co-edited with Thomas Ertl ----
Of late, historians have been realising that So... more Edited volume, co-edited with Thomas Ertl ----
Of late, historians have been realising that South Asia and Europe have more in common than the legacy of Orientalism, area studies, and a particular strand in the historiography on “the rise of the West” would have us believe. In both world regions a plurality of languages, religions, and types of belonging by birth was in premodern times matched by a plurality of legal systems and practices. Through careful case-by-case descriptions of the points where law and social diversity intersected, the volume puts the debate on “legal pluralism,” waged among anthropologists, jurists and legal historians, into the new perspective of a long term comparison that is bound to unsettle both notions of “Europe” and “non-Europe.”
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Papers by Sanjog Rupakheti
Book Reviews by Sanjog Rupakheti
Books by Sanjog Rupakheti
Of late, historians have been realising that South Asia and Europe have more in common than the legacy of Orientalism, area studies, and a particular strand in the historiography on “the rise of the West” would have us believe. In both world regions a plurality of languages, religions, and types of belonging by birth was in premodern times matched by a plurality of legal systems and practices. Through careful case-by-case descriptions of the points where law and social diversity intersected, the volume puts the debate on “legal pluralism,” waged among anthropologists, jurists and legal historians, into the new perspective of a long term comparison that is bound to unsettle both notions of “Europe” and “non-Europe.”
Of late, historians have been realising that South Asia and Europe have more in common than the legacy of Orientalism, area studies, and a particular strand in the historiography on “the rise of the West” would have us believe. In both world regions a plurality of languages, religions, and types of belonging by birth was in premodern times matched by a plurality of legal systems and practices. Through careful case-by-case descriptions of the points where law and social diversity intersected, the volume puts the debate on “legal pluralism,” waged among anthropologists, jurists and legal historians, into the new perspective of a long term comparison that is bound to unsettle both notions of “Europe” and “non-Europe.”