A farmer ploughs his field in the month of Jeyshta (May-June),
prior to transplanting rice. Tikapur, Far Western Nepal, c. 2002.
Photo credit: Bernardo A. Michael (2002).
2010 (forthcoming). "The Tarai: A Part of Moghlan or Gorkha? Perspectives from the Time of the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816)." In Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.
“Spatiality, Power, and Statemaking in Colonial South Asia: The Case of the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1740-1816.” In Peter W. Kirby, ed., Boundless Worlds: Social Dynamics of 'Space', Power, and Movemen t ( New York: Berghahn Books, 2009), pp. 45-68.
2007. “Making Territory Visible: The Revenue Surveys of Colonial South Asia,” in Imago Mundi: Journal for the International History of Cartography, Volume 59, no. 1 (2007): 78-95.
2006. “Tarai: Mughalko Bagh va Gorkhako [in Nepali].” In Basant Thapa & Mohan Mainali, eds., Madesh: Samasya ra Sambhavana ( Kathmandu: Social Science Baha), pp. 8-27.
2005. “Culture.” Encyclopaedia of World History, Volume 2. (Berkshire: MA: Berkshire Reference Works), pp. 467-472.
2005. “Postcolonial Analysis.” Encyclopaedia of World History, Volume 4 ( Berkshire, MA: Berkshire Reference Works), pp. 1502-1505.
2003. “When Soldiers and Statesmen Meet: ‘Ethnographic Moments’ on the Frontiers of Empire.” In Stewart Gordon, ed., Robes of Honour: Khil’at in Pre-Colonial and Colonial India( New Delhi: Oxford University Press), pp. 80-94.
2002. “Ranas.” Encyclopedia of Modern Asia ( Berkshire, MA: Berkshire Reference Works).
Forthcoming. “When and Soldiers and Statesmen Meet: Ethnographic Encounters on the Frontiers of Empire, 1800-1815.” In Topkhana, The Official Journal of the Rajdal Regiment, Royal Nepalese Army.
1999. “Statemaking and Space on the Margins of Empire: Rethinking the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-1816.” In Studies in Nepali History and Society 4 (2): 247-94.
1998. “Describing Gorkha: ‘Faskirap Saheb’s’ Mission to Gorkha, 1783.” In Contributions to Nepalese Studies 15 (2): 279-89.
BOOK REVIEWS in various journals such as Artha Vignana, H-NET Reviews, Himalayan Research Bulletin, Imago Mundi, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Journal of World History, Pacific Circle, and Studies in Nepali History and Society.
SELECT PRESENATIONS
“‘Crushed Glass’: Memory, History and Identity in a South Indian Family,” Centennial and Annual Spring Humanities Symposium, Messiah College, 23 February 2010.
“Understanding the Territorial Structure of the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1750-1814,” 20th Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 14-17 November 2008.
“Writing Social Histories of Technology: Rethinking the History of Cartography,” Annual Spring Humanities Symposium, Messiah College, 27 February 2008.
“Nepali History as World History.” 19 th Social Science Baha Lecture, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal, 20 June 2007.
“Cultures of Governance and the Production of Space Along the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1780-1814,” Panel on Historical geographies of embodied practice, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 17-21 April 2007.
Panel Organizer & Discussant. Panel Title: “Worlding Maps: Culture, Power, History, and Space in the Cartographic History of South Asia.” The 19th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, 27-30 June 2006. Leiden, Netherlands.
“Inscribing Maps on the Land: ‘Non-Cartographic’ Practices in Colonial South Asia,” The 19th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies , 27-30 June 2006. Leiden, Netherlands.
Discussant, “Writing…Social…Histories…of Space: Connecting the Dots,” Social Histories of Space in Latin America Conference, 22-23 October 2005,Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University.
“Towards a Cultural History of Archives,’ Student-Faculty Joint Presentation, History Department, Messiah College, 22 March 2005 [joint presentation with Jeff Erbig].
“The Tarai: A Part of Moghlan or Gorkha? Perspectives from the Time of the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816).” Nepal Tarai: Context And Possibilities, Conference Organized by the Social Science Baha, 10-11 March 2005, Kathmandu, Nepal [Paper read in absentia].
“Tenurial Relations, Territoriality, and Colonial Boundaries: Mirza Abdullah Beg on the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1780-1814.”North East Region Association of Asian Studies Meeting, 5-6 November 2004, Dartmouth College, Rhode Island.
“Mapping Spatial Illegibility: The Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-16 and the colonial Revenue Surveys of the Nineteenth Century in South Asia.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 8-11, 2004 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
“Writing Spatial Histories of the Colonial State in South Asia: The Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-16 and Revenue Surveys of the Nineteenth Century.” 20 th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Harvard University 15-17 June 2003, University of Southern Maine, 18-20 th June 2003.
“Historical Causality and the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-1816?” Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History, Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 1-4 May 2003.
“Writing Histories of State Spaces: Cartographic Agency and Everyday Governance in Colonial South Asia.” Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, New York, 27-30 March 2003.
“Preliminary Notes on the geography of the State: Rethinking the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-16.” 31st Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference, Community College of Baltimore County-Essex, Baltimore, Maryland 25-27 October 2002.
“Spatiality, Power, and Statemaking in Colonial South Asia: The Case of the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1740-1816.” Space, Culture, Power: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, 10-11 April 2001.
“Mapping and Empire: Writing Spatial Histories of the Early Colonial State in South Asia.” International Security Studies Conference on Recent Work on International History, Yale University, 15-16 December 2000.
“When Soldiers and Statesmen Meet: “Ethnographic Moments” on the Frontiers of Empire, 1800-1815.” Annual South Asia Symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 13-15 April 2000.
“Separating the Yam from the Boulder: Statemaking and Space on the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier, 1730-1814.” 28 th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 15-17 October 1999.
“Tarul ra Dhungako Bichhama: Tappe Rautahat, Praganna Gadh Simraon ko Khojma [Between the Yam and the Boulder: The Search for Tappa Rautahat, Pargana Gadh Simraon]” (in Nepali). Martin Chautari Discussion Group, Kathmandu, 18 May 1999.
“Fiscal Space and Illegible Landscapes on the Champaran Frontier: The Case of the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816).” Indian History Congress, 59th Session, 28-30 December 1998, Patiala, India.
“Geo-scapes and Illegible Landscapes: Spatializing State Formation in South Asia.” Sixth Annual East-West Center Participants Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 10-14 February 1997.
Sati Temple, Sati, Kailali District, Far Western Nepal. Early 20th century
Photo Credit: Amar Bahadur Chettri (2007).