Professor Black shows the reader how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today.

Why are myths of the Indian Great Goddess couched in a conversation between a deposed king and forest-dwelling ascetic?

Zaman's book is is a landmark publication in the fields of Religious Studies, modern Islam, South Asian Islam...

Why does the narrative motif of ‘dialogue’ pervade Hindu texts?

To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience?

Kaul upturns many prevalent views about the cultural history of Kashmir...

Larios probes the backbone of what makes Hinduism the world’s oldest living tradition: the unbroken chain of transmission of Vedic texts composed over 3,000 years ago, originating circa 1750-1200 BCE...

In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to the Persian Gulf...

Parents, teachers, feminists, conservatives, lawyers, the concerned citizen – pornography raises everyone's hackles...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Claire Pamment’s book is a fantastic new book centered on the Punjabi folk art of the Bhānd, or comic performance...

The Indian caste system is an ancient, pervasive institution of social organization within the subcontinent – or is it?

Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...

One of the great archeological finds of the 20th century, the Gandhāran Buddhist Texts, dating from the 1st century CE, are the oldest Buddhist manuscripts ever discovered...

The existence of skepticism in Indian Philosophy has long been neglected in favor of dogmatic positions...

Studies of Hindu saints tend to focus primarily on the saints themselves—their words, teachings, and practices—rather than tending to the often complex and complicated world of texts and traditions about those saints...

This work maps manifestations of the festival across historical periods and local celebrations over the regions of West Bengal, Odish...

Far more than just an introductory book, Richard argues not only that the Pali Canon records the words of the Buddha, but that the Buddha himself is responsible for the Pali language...

This landmark speech by Dr. B.R. Ambedakar is the pinnacle of his scholarly work and cements his legacy alongside Mahatma Gandhi in Indian politics...

What role does mantra play in the lives of Hindu practitioners?

Through careful analysis of historical textual discourses, Ingram carefully guides his readers through important polemics that manifested amongst the Deoband ‘ulama...

Tumbe analyses the interlinked histories of migrations of different communities in and out of India and the world...

This longue-durée approach allows Alf Gunvald Nilsen to unravel the Indian state's everyday tyranny against its adivasi citizens...

Through the exploration of na‘t, or devotional poetic recitations that honor the prophet Muhammad, Eisenlohr captures the sensory dimension of Islam...

Animal Intimacies is a path paving work that combines theoretical innovation and playfulness, ethnographic depth, and profound attunement to capturing the aspirations and tragedies of everyday life through the art of narrative...