Nepali judicial system, army, list of former states and villages and towns with their distance from Kathmandu, revenue: general, statistics: Tarai, (Morang and Makawanpur) with important official orders (translated), law codes (institutes) or reforms, Jayasthi Malla's reforms, contemporary admin...
Law and justice, academic correspondence: letters and miscellaneous
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Law and justice, crime and punishment, research and academic correspondence by Hodgson, receipts and bills related to books and manuscripts, lists of Nepali religious manuscripts.
Detailed account of lands under free tenure or reduced taxation in Kathmandu and neighbouring urban and semi-urban settlements, revenue of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur (particularly land revenue); income and expenditure of the kingdom with details of army, palace, the Tarai and the customs tar...
Agriculture: including comparisons with the system in Britain, correspondence related to agriculture, agro-products, market prices, land system including land measurement, land administration, land revenue; Nepali administration, information on the Nepal Tarai, revenue and expenditure, export-im...
Agriculture, botany, meteorology and miscellaneous notes
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Notes with valuable information on various aspects of Nepal including agriculture, peasantry and meteorological observations of the Kathmandu Valley, ethnography, geography, economy. Contains three pre-bound notebooks on different subject matters.
History (legends and chronicles: vaṃśāvali), Volume II
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Translation of a Nepali chronicle dealing with the Malla rulers originally written in Sanskrit, collection of popular legends related to Newar Kings, a rough copy numbered as Volume II (the other item of this series numbered as Volume I is under Volume 17, ff. 173-219).
Genealogy, history (vaṃśāvalis of the Gorkhali and Newar rulers)
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Various genealogies (vaṃśāvali) related to Gorkha or Shah rulers and Newar rulers, translated into English from old Nepali, some other historical materials (accounts).
English translations and summaries of the following: Dates of tenure of Chief Ministers from the fall of Bhimsen Thapa to the time of Mathbarsingh Thapa, genealogies and genealogical lists of the Shah dynasty and families of Ministers of the court of Gorkha, measurements of major cities and town...