Slouber surveys the diversity of India's feminine divine tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess narratives from different regions....

For millions worldwide, the Devi Mahatmyam is of central spiritual importance and of equal cultural significance within Indian Sanskrit literature to the Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, and the Ramayana...

India’s urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to basic public goods and services—paved roads, piped water, trash removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some vulnerable communities able to secure development from the state while others fail?

What counts as contemplative practices in Hinduism? What can Hindu Studies offer Contemplative Studies as a discipline?

It is 21st century commonsense that India is an “emerging” economy. But how did this common sense itself emerge?

What is the relationship between science, religion and technology in Hinduism?

Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time...

Evans offers a sustained and compelling critique of the doubt/belief binary in the anthropology of religion and Islam,..

How did the Kachchhi traders build on the Gujarat Advantage?

Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society...

What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta?

Ali provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar...

Balakrishnan examines the novel phenomenon of the conversion of agrarian landowners into urban shareholders in India’s newly emerging “corridor cities.”

Keating offers a ground-breaking reference resource for understanding arthāpati, and debates in Indian philosophy at large....

A radical and vivid rendering of poetry from the first Buddhist nuns that brings a new immediacy to their voices...

Metcalf offers an innovative remapping of empire...

Lee tells the story of the emergence and sometimes surprising longevity of the Afghan state in the face of serious external and internal challenges over the last three centuries...

Aiyer investigates how Indian diasporic actors influenced the course of Kenya’s political history, from partnering with Europeans in their colonial mission in East Africa to political solidarity with Africans in their anticolonial struggles....

For many, the history of the Mughal empire looms heavy over contemporary South Asian social imaginaries. The lightning rod figure within modern day myths about the past is the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707)...

This book spans over two thousand years of inquiry into language in the Indian subcontinent....

Nair offers intellectually daring and dazzlingly imaginative study of scholarly interactions, made visible through translation, between Sanskrit and Arabo-Persian philosophical traditions in premodern South Asia...

Gansten offers the first-ever scholarly volume on Sanskritized Perso-Arabic (Tājika) astrology...

Long explores the influence of concepts such karma, rebirth, meditation and yoga on the American consciousness, along with Hindu temples in America...

The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women’s sexuality on the other...