Kumar, Satish (1967), Rana Polity in Nepal - Origin and Growth. London: Asia Publishing House.

Regmi, Mahesh Chandra (1976), Landownership in Nepal. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.

Stiller, Ludwig F. (1976), The Silent Cry - The People of Nepal 1816-1839. Kathmandu: Sahoyogi Press.

--- 1989. Prithivinarayan Shah in the Light of Dibya Upadesh. Kathmandu: Himalayan Book Centre (reprint, 1st ed. Ranchi 1968).

Whelpton, John. 1983. Jang Bahadur in Europe. Kathmandu: Sahayogi Press.

* ---. 1992. Kings, Soldiers and Priests: Nepalese Politics and the Rise of Jang Bahadur Rana, 1830-1857. Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar.

Society and Law

Bennett, Lynn (1983), Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters - Social and Symbolic Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal. New York: Columbia University Press.

*Höfer, Andras. 1979. The Caste Hierarchy and the State in Nepal - A Study of the Muluki Ain of 1854. Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner (Khumbu Himal, 13/2).

Michaels, Axel. 1993 "Widow burning in Nepal", in: Gerard Toffin (ed.), Nepal, Past and Present. Proceedings of the Franco-German Conference Art-et-Senans, June 1990. Paris: CNRS Editions, pp. 21-34.

---. 1994a. "The Legislation of Widow Burning in 19th-Century Nepal. Edition and Translation of the Chapter Satijānyako of the Mulukī Ain", Asiatische Studien XLVIII.4: 1213-1240.

---. 1997a. "The King and the Cow. On a Crucial Symbol of Hinduization", in: David Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and John Whelpton (eds.), Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 79-100.

---. The Price of Purity: The Religious Judge in 19^th Century Nepal. Containing the Edition and Translation of the Chapters on the Dharmādhikārin in Two (Mulukī) Ains. Torino: CESMEO, 2005 [erschienen/published 2006] (Comitato „Corpus Juris Sancriticum et fontes iuris Asiae Meridianae et Centralis”; vol. 6)

Art

Gutschow, Niels, The Nepalese Caitya - 1500 Years of Buddhist Votive Architecture in the Kathmandu Valley. With Drawings by Bijay Basukala and an Introductory Essay on Newar Buddhism by David Gellner, Stuttgart 1997.

---. Architecture of Nepal, 3 vols. 2012.

-- and Bernhard Kölver, Bhaktapur - Ordered Space, Concepts and Functions in a Town of Nepal. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1975.

*Michael Hutt: Nepal. A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley, Gartmore 1994.

*Slusser, Mary Shepherd (1982), Nepal Mandala - A Cultural Study of the Kathmandu Valley. 2 Vols., Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Religion

Anderson, Mary M. (1971), The Festivals of Nepal. London: Allen & Unwin.

*Gellner, David: Monk, Householder, and Tantrik Priest. Newar Buddhism and its Hierarchy of Ritual. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992.

*Levy, Robert. (1990), Mesocosm - Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

Locke, John K. (1980), Karunamaya - The Cult of Avalokiteśvara- Matsyendranāth in the Valley of Nepal. Kathmandu: Sahayogi Prakashan.

Michaels, Axel. Śiva in Trouble – Festivals and Rituals at the Paśupatinātha Temple of Deopatan (Nepal). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

---- (2005). (with Niels Gutschow) Handling Death. The Dynamics of Death and Ancestor Rituals Among the Newars of Bhaktapur, Nepal. With Contributions by Johanna Buss and Nutan Sharma and a Film on DVD by Christian Bau. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (Ethno-Indology; 3).

---. 2008. (with Niels Gutschow) Growing Up – Hindu and Buddhist Initiation Rituals among Newar Children in Bhaktapur, Nepal. With a Film on DVD by Christian Bau. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (Ethno-Indology; 6).

---. (2012) (with Niels Gutschow) Getting Married – Hindu and Buddhist Marriage Rituals among Newars of Bhaktapur and Patan, Nepal. With a Film on DVD by Christian Bau. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (Ethno-Indology; 12).

Conference volumes:

Chr. von Fürer-Haimendorf (Ed.), The Anthropology of Nepal. Warminster: Aris & Philips, 1974

Hitchcock, John T., and Rex L. Jone (eds.): Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas. Warminster (Engl.): Aris and Phillips, 1976.

Allen, Michael, and S.N. Mukherjee (eds.), Women in India and Nepal. Canberra: ANU, 1982.

Kölver, Bernhard (ed.). 1986. Formen kulturellen Wandels und andere Beiträge zur Erforschung des Himālaya. Sankt Augustin: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag.

--- (ed.) 1992. Aspects of Nepalese Traditions. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Gutschow, Niels; Michaels, Axel (eds.). 1987. Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley: Proceedings of an International Conference in Lübeck, 1987. Sankt Augustin: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag

Kölver, Bernhard (Ed.) (1992), "Seminar on German Research on Nepal" in Kathmandu, March 12-15, 1990.Kathmandu: Nepal research Centree.

Brauen, Martin; Ramble, Charles (eds.). 1993. Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya. Zurich: Ethnological Museum of the University of Zurich

Toffin, Gerard (ed). 1993. Nepal, Past and Present: Proceedings of the Franco-German Conference Art-et-Senans, June 1990. Paris: CNRS Editions, 21-34.

Blondeau, Anne-Marie; Steinkellner, Ernst (eds.). 1996. Reflections of the Mountain. Essays on the History and Social Meaning of the Mountain Cult in Tibet and the Himalaya. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Michaels, Axel, Cornelia Vogelsanger, Annette Wilke (eds.), Wild Godesses in India and Nepal, Berne 1996.

Lienhard, Siegfried (ed.). 1996. Change and Continuity: Studies in the Nepalese Culture of the Kathmandu Valley. Turin: Edizioni Dell'orso (CESMEO).

Bickel, Balthasar; Gaenszle, Martin (eds.). 1999. Cultural Horizons and Practices in Himalayan Space. Zurich: Ethnological Museum of the University of Zurich.

Gutschow, Niels, Axel Michaels, Charles Ramble, Ernst Steinkellner (Hrsg.),Sacred Landscape of the Himalaya. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2003.