Shahi Project Final Publication

Exploring the Contributions of the Shahi Kingdoms to Inner and South Asia: The Dynamic Evolution of Primary Source Materials from the Hindukush to the Himalayas during the 7th-11th Century

Following methods of digital humanities as well as principles of open science, the Digital Publication offers innovative approaches to the study of the Shahi kingdoms. The digitally-enriched format—in parallel with a print volume—presents the final scientific results of the Shahi project. The text is closely integrated with the primary source materials, map, and other digital tools published on the digital platform. The scientific content is enriched and contextualized through linking directly to open data across the Shahi Kingdoms Database and other digital sources, along with interactive visual content. A print volume will be published in conjunction with the digital publication.

Shahi Bibliographic Resources

The following resources focus on the cultural history of the Shahi kingdoms. All resources will be regularly updated.

Shahi Publications written by the Project Research Team

References to publications written by members of the Shahi Project Team with direct relevance to the cultural history of the Shahi kingdoms. For a full list of publications by each scholar on this team, see references in the Bibliographic Database and on the individual profiles/homepages linked in the Project Team page.

Shahi Bibliography

References to all relevant publications for the study of the cultural history of the Shahi kingdoms.

Primary Literary Sources

References to primary literary sources relevant to the cultural history of the Shahi kingdoms, including Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Korean, and Tibetan sources.

Bibliographic Database (BibDB)

This resource consists of nearly 8,000 indexed bibliographic references focusing on the westernmost zone of the Himalayan region, and the adjacent regions including the territories of the Shahi kingdoms. Starting as a simple catalogue on paper cards collected by emer. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Deborah Klimburg-Salter in the 1970s, it has been transformed into a local digital database of annotated references. The current BibDB was standardized and edited by Dr. Erika Forte. The bibliography has been collected over many years with the participation of various scholars (see here for full list of participating scholars). The BibDB was made publicly available as an online resource in the course of the FWF-financed National Research Network (NFN) The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya (2006-2013; FWF #S98) but later taken offline. In the context of the present project, the database has been expanded including contemporaneous literary witnesses, related secondary literature, and archaeological reports. The bibliography will be regularly updated.