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Leviathan or paper tiger
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Leviathan or paper tiger
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state making in the Himalayas, 1740-1900
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Rupakheti
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Sanjog
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1981-
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Sanjog Rupakheti
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DR. SUMIT
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DR. SUMIT GUHA
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DR. INDRANI
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co-chair
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DR. BARBARA
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DR. BARBARA COOPER
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DR. DAVID
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DR. DAVID LUDDEN
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2012
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2012-10
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2012
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eng
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This dissertation is based on a range of previously unstudied archival sources. It reveals the fragmented nature of power in the Himalayas through much of the eighteenth century. This was the time when a coalition of families identified as House of Gorkha began to consolidate its control in the region. Unlike the other South Asian states of the eighteenth century, the Nepali state did not grow by focusing on military power but by the intertwined strategies of literary and religious patronage, the creation of genealogies and legal codes and the politicization of ritual and rank. The hierarchical distribution of privileges and exemptions shaped by family, clan and gender relations generated regimes of power that over time developed into a state system and established Nepal on its path to monarchy. Sensitivity to dispersed sites of power such as the household, family and clan enables us to understand the nineteenth-century processes by which legal codes came to be invested with great authority. This is especially true of the compilation called the Ain of 1854. Scholars of legal history have compared it to the British Indian Legal Code of 1837 and 1861. My research demonstrates instead that it was a document, which projected the political-juridical claims of the House of Gorkha over laboring groups and its right to collect income from fines. In other words, the struggle to define ‘moral law’ using the Ain was intended to establish clear claims of one group to the labor and fealty of others. The House of Gorkha pushed for social differentiation through the Ain. The concept of justice in that code was status-differentiated. The eminence of the family and clan mattered for this reason. In turn, the eminence of a family rested on the successful management of marriage relations. Thus social relationships were not trans-historical fossilized entities but fully sensitive to the political-economic flows of the period. In historically plotting the lineage of one such state in Nepal, my research urges nationalist and post-colonial historians of South Asia not to treat colonial and national boundaries as being impermeable to history.
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History
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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xx, 263 p. : ill., maps
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Sanjog Rupakheti
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Nation-state
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Himalaya Mountains--History--18th century
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Gurkhas--History--18th century
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Gurkhas--History--19th century
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Himalaya Mountains--History--19th century
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Asia--Politics and government
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000066960
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T31N7ZVD
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ETD doctoral
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Sanjog
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2012-09-11 00:15:29
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Sanjog Rupakheti
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2021-11-29
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2025-12-31
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after December 31, 2025.
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