The work in NHDP has also contributed to research related to Heritage of and in Nepal, such as independent scholarly publications and qualification theses. We also list publications of team members and consultants that help better understand Nepal’s heritage and thus our project’s efforts.

Publications closely related to the NHDP

  1. Brosius, Christiane, and Axel Michaels. 2020. "Vernacular Heritage as Urban Place-Making. Activities and Positions in the Reconstruction of Monuments after the Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal, 2015–2020: The Case of Patan" Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8720. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208720

  2. Michaels, Axel: Nepal: a history from the earliest times to the present. New York : Oxford University Press, 2024 — https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197650936.001.0001

  3. Michaels, Axel. “From Syncretism to Transculturality: The Dīpaṅkara Procession in the Kathmandu Valley.” In South Asian Festivals on the Move, edited by Ute Hüsken and Axel Michaels, 317–42. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013.

  4. Khatiwoda, Rajan, Cubelic, Simon and Michaels, Axel: The "Mulukī Ain" of 1854: Nepal’s First Legal Code , Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021 (Documenta Nepalica – Book Series, Vol. 2). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.769

Theses written using data from DANAM

  1. Charlotte von Waitz: Writing on Phalcas: Contested urban heritage-making in Lalitpur, Nepal (BA thesis; submitted June 2020).

  2. Diego Jaimes: Realms of Belonging: Urban Built Heritage Spaces and Places through Courtyards of the Kathmandu Valley (MA thesis; submitted March 2024).


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