Researcher Dr. Simon Cubelic
Simon Cubelic studied Classical Indology and Political Science of South Asia at Heidelberg University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In February 2017 he received his PhD from Heidelberg University with a thesis on the colonial codification of Hindu law within the frame of the research project “Transcultural Legal Flows in 18th- and 19th-century South Asia: Changing Ideas and Practices of Law and Legitimation in Hindu Legal Cultures” (Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”). Since 2014 he has been research associate at the research unit “Documents on the History of Religion and Law of premodern Nepal” of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and since 2020 academic librarian in the South Asia department of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) library. He has also taken appointments as research associate at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) and visiting lecturer at the Institute for Religious Studies of Heidelberg University. Since 2016 he serves at the editorial board of the Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung (IZSAF).
His current research focuses on the intellectual history of legal and political thought of premodern South Asia in in Sanskrit und Nepālī, Dharmaśāstra literature, Nepalese archival documents and epigraphy, and digital methods in South Asia research.
Selected Publications
- “Die koloniale Restauration des Dharmaśāstra. Das Obligationenrecht in Sarvoru Śarmans Vivādasārārṇava. Edition, kommentierte Übersetzung und Studie der Kapitel ṛṇādānanirūpaṇa und upanidhyādinirūpaṇa”. Dissertation: Univ. Heidelberg, 2021.
- The Mulukī Ain of 1854: Nepal’s First Legal Code. [with Rajan Khatiwoda and Axel Michaels] Documenta Nepalica 2. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021.
- Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India. [with Axel Michaels and Astrid Zotter, eds.] Documenta Nepalica 1. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2018.
Research
- Anthropology of Inscriptions: Memory and Cultural Heritage in the Public Sphere (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies / FI “Transforming Cultural Heritage”)
- Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
- Transcultural Legal Flows in 18th- and 19th-century South Asia: Changing Ideas and Practices of Law and Legitimation in Hindu Legal Cultures (Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”)
Teaching
Selected List
- Digital Literacy for South Asianists [with Ute Hüsken] (Seminar, WiSe 21/22)
- Introduction to Research Methods (Seminar, WiSe 21/22)
- Introduction to Premodern Political Thought of South Asia (Seminar, WiSe 19/20)
- Introduction to Indology (Seminar, SoSe 2019)
- Introduction to the History of Hindu Law (Seminar, WiSe 18/19)
- Politicization of Religious Studies Research: Case studies from Europe, the Near East and South Asia [with Danijel Cubelic] (Seminar, SoSe 2017)
Contact
Researcher
Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia
South Asian Institute, Universität Heidelberg
Voßstraße 2, Building 4130
D-69115 Heidelberg
Room: 110.00.11
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 - 54 15 050
E-mail: simon.cubelic@uni-heidelberg.de
Consultation hours: by appointment via e-mail