Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosmopolitan sophistication...

This book examines the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries...

This book traces the little-known yet unparalleled influence of Shrimad Rajchandra, Jain zaveri (jeweller)-cum-spiritual seeker, on Mahatma Gandhi...

Liu’s book offers a fascinating new history of this ubiquitous beverage, leveraging its production, consumption, and global circulation to offer a fresh and compelling account of capitalist accumulation....

This book takes as its subject the multiple forms of architecture, design and sociability that Hindu spaces of worship encompass today...

The book takes readers through Greek, Latin, Old English and the Germanic Languages, Sanskrit, Old Irish and the Celtic Languages, and Hebrew, introducing their phonology, morphology, lexicons, grammar, and excerpting passages from texts such as the Illiad, Beowulf, and the Rig Veda...

Bellenoit digs beneath imperial formation on a macro level and looks at the fiscal management of empire....

Mukhopadhyay excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining...

In 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India's peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized...

Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought...

Heroic Saktism is the belief that a good king and a true warrior must worship the goddess Durga, the form and substance of kingship...

Drawing from the experiences of diasporic South Asian Muslim community in America, namely Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and Indians, Shams introduces an innovative conceptual notion of “elsewhere” which informs her new multicentered approach to the study of globalized immigrant identities...

How can dance be sustained by its practitioners in the unstable political and geographical landscape of war?

Padma focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility...

Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life—one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire...

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?