
42. An Essay on the History of Newar Culture. 
By K. P. Cuatropapuyay, M.Sc. (Cantab.). 
SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF THE NEWARS. 
Preface. 
The literature on the Newars and their country Nepal 
is fairly large, although in many cases the observers did not 
have opportunities of ‘recording facts from direct investigation 
in Nepal The documents available date from the time of the 
visit of the Chinese pilgrims to India right up to modern times. 
The best compendium of the large mass of information is 
to be found in Sylvain Lévi’s book on Nepal (see infra) where 
he marshals and critically examines the facts given in docu- 
ments of Nepalese, Tibetan, Chinese and Indian as well as Euro- 
pean origin. His work is, however, not directly anthropological 
and a detailed analysis of the social organisation was no 
ener ages 
this essay on the Newars, I have tried to utilise the 
Syailable facts on Nepal] from an ethnological standpoint. The 
literature examined is that given in 
(1) The subject index of the British Museum. 
(2) The Catalogue of the India Office Library. 
(3) The Bibliographies on Nepal in various books and 
articles on that country.! 
4) Poole’s index to periodical literature. 
5) Articles on Nepal in — journals, utilised by a 
direct examination of ther 
A Il be seen from the etre neces very few really 
important contributions have been overlooked by Lévi or been 
auae d to the literature on Nepal since = his work, the as 
on 
maneripts in the ‘India Office Library. The m ees 
contain a large mass of unpublished information about the 
social apes age of Nepal, of which I have availed myself 
in par : 
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' Thave not ‘hoon ails to examine Mi pecs i article - Nepal re- 
mere Bi in Lévi’s book, as it is in Russian, and a few other 
454, 
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; as dire a to these manuscripts by a reference to them 
W. "Beaters s biography gson, and by the fact that the latter 
of 
had p Promised a paper on Mewar social organis “gages which never appear- 
ed in print. The rier have been put in order very recently 
V. W. Hunter: Life of B. H. Hodgson, Appendix x B. tendon, 1896. 
