Newcombe charts the trajectory of how yoga in became mainstream in Britain to the point of being taught to thousands of middle-class women in adult education classes...

Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...

Jain offers a concise history of Hindus and Jains in the Americas over the last two centuries..

Mumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past...

Jacobsen examines the Kāpil Maṭh, a Sāṃkhyayoga institution emerging in the late nineteenth century Bengal...

Fair reveals a little-known aspect of how LeT functions in Pakistan and beyond, by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT..

"Faithful Fighters" is a powerful and brilliant meditation on the impossibility of modern colonial power to canonize religion and religious identity...

Baruah's book is a wide-ranging analysis of a mode of governance that has become associated with the region where armed resistance, electoral institutions, states of exception and the force of development co-exist...

Did modern Hinduism truly emerge due to the “reforms” instigated by “progressive” colonial figures such as Rammohun Roy?

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Kuru offers a ground-breaking history and analysis of the evolution of the state in Muslim countries...

Ollett argues that Prakit is “the most important Indian language you’ve never heard of.”

Tareen takes us into the fascinating world of the ‘ulama (theologians) of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century South Asian Islam...

Inglis uses the interactions between elite members of golf clubs in city of Bangalore and the caddies who carry their bags to examine how globalization is both upending and reproducing a status quo of extreme inequality...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Saunders tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders..

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?