Jansen discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies...

South Asian architecture and landscapes are not as well known in the western design schools...

The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..

How do you understand mindfulness?

Haug offers an in-depth look at the frontier zone of the Sassanian, Umayyad, and Abbasid Empires...

This book features an investigation of men donning a women’s guises to impersonate female characters...

Shah and her co-authors focuses on those left behind by, and indeed ground down by, India’s much touted growth...

This book represents the very first study of a fascinating Hindu phenomenon: the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century narrative textual tradition native to Nepal surrounding the Goddess, Svasthānī...

What is the relationship between religion and power?

Is “Vedic” fire sacrifice at odds with “Hindu” image worship?

There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...

Harris talks about the trip she made with her friend Mel, tracing Marco Polo’s route across Central Asia and Tibet...

Sekhsaria is a compilation of Sekhsaria's writings on key issues in the Islands over this period and provides an important, consolidated account...

More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well?

Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...

Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...

Jane Hooper talks about Madagascar and its importance to the history of Indian Ocean trade and exploration...

Sharma sheds light on the migration decisions and experiences of young Nepali men from the western district of Palpa who migrate to India to take up jobs as security guards, domestic workers, or restaurant and hotel workers...

For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday...

In a world where heritage, culture, creativity, and the capacity to imagine are themselves commodified and sold under the banner of neoliberal freedom, (how) can art be harnessed for anti-capitalist agendas?

Slate explores the ways that Gandhi linked his diet to nonviolent political action through protesting salt taxes, fasting for peace, and abstaining from chocolate produced by slave-like labor...

Reese, explores the social effects of the British empire, and its attending conditions, on Muslims in the port city of Aden...

Moodie examines the history of the Kalighat temple of Kolkata...

Why is the Indian Goddess sometimes figured as a corpse in Tantric Traditions?

Why would anyone want to study Sanskrit, an ancient complex tongue? What’s the best way to go about doing so?