Rajan Khatiwoda is a research associate at the Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP) at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He also holds the position of Honorary Leader of the Kathmandu Offi ce of the Śākta Traditions Project at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS). His main research areas include Hindu
legal traditions, Śakta practices, heritage studies, and South Asian political and legal
history, as well as the epigraphical culture of South Asia.