If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Collett delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of early Buddhism...

What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics?

Wagner puts this act of colonial violence in its proper historical context...

Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...

While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline...

Vaughn offers an powerful challenge to the received view that the Asian domains were acquired by accident and formed part of an empire of liberty.,,

Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Prange provides a fascinating window into the Muslim world of the medieval (12-16th century) Malabar Coast and the development of Islam that was defined by significant trade networks.

Ali presents a lyrical and at many times haunting account of the aspirations, anxieties, and tragedies enfolding everyday life in the rarely studied Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan...

Fuchs interrogates this framework with a novel intervention by examining the case of Shi’i Islamic intellectual thought in Pakistan as it relates to the Middle East....

Gurumaa’s syncretic approach innovates Hindu religiosity, as does her progressive attitudes towards treatment of women...

Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Hinchy documents the ability many Hijras have to preserve in spite of systematic policing and criminalization...

The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...

Few doctrinal and political issues are more controversial in Pakistan today than that of blasphemy...

Was ancient India ruled by politics or religion?

Zia's urgent ethnography is centered on Kashmiri women of the APDP (Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons)...

How did a Danish historian wind up with a human skull from colonial India in his University of London office

Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating...

Kikon offers a rich account of life in the midst of a landscape defined by multiple overlapping extractive industries and plantation economies...

Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP)...