The Muluki Ain of 1854
- ISBN
- 9789937733373
- Publisher
- Vajra Books
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 882
- Genre
- Law
- Subjects
- Legal Code, Legal History
About the book
In "The Muluki Ain of 1854," authors Rajan Khatiwada, Simon Cubelic, and Axel Michaels present a scholarly critical edition and translation of Nepal’s first comprehensive legal code. The authors analyze this foundational text as a sweeping legal framework covering criminal and civil law, public administration, property and inheritance, marriage, procedural law, and caste-based social hierarchies. By combining historical and linguistic commentary, they show how the code standardized state governance and legal proceedings—with penalties ranging from individual offenses to crimes against the state—while capturing both traditional Hindu jurisprudence and early state modernization efforts in Nepal.