Drawing on the author's own extensive Indological and ethnographic research, this book provides an excellent survey of Nepal's culture and history and is particularly valuable for its treatment of religion and art.
Axel Michaels is Senior Professor of Classical Indology and Religious Studies at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. A specialist in the legal and cultural history of South Asia, he is the author of Hinduism: Past and Present and Homo rituali: Hindu Rituals and its Significance for Ritual Theory (OUP, 2015), among other books.