Saul Mullard is a researcher at EPHE (École Pratiques des Hautes Études), where he is currently working on the Social History of the Sikkimese Himalaya based on archival material from the Sikkimese Palace Archive. His principal research foci are on the taxation and administrative organisation of Sikkim, frontiers and boundaries in state, inter-state and non-state spaces and ethnicity and stratification in 17th-20th century Sikkim.