What is Sanskrit Studies?

Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South...

Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls "the paradoxes of the popular," or the constitutive contradictions of popular politics...

Simmons examines the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868) in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore...

What is a mosque? What are women's mosques specifically?

This ground-breaking work on Indian philosophical doxography examines the function of dialectical texts within their intellectual and religious milieu

McGrath examines the complex and enigmatic Vyāsa, both the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and a key character in the very epic he composes...

Despite a reign that lasted for over two decades, the Mughal emperor Jahangir has often been regarded as a weak ruler...

Chhabria argues that cities are not naturally occurring spaces or innocent administrative categories marked by lines on a map: instead they are spaced produced by constant labors of inclusion and exclusion which serve to keep capital flowing while stigmatizing the laboring poor...

Rashid conducts an intimate and layered ethnography of militarism and death in Pakistan, with a focus on the lives, aspirations, and tragedies of soldiers and their families in rural Punjab...

Sutton describes the work of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, as well as his own scholarship.

Jegathesan makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods...

Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement...

Collins examines a fascinating, understudied figure appearing in Sanskrit narrative texts: Paraśurāma, i.e., “Rāma with the Axe”...

Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state...

Stephens examines how Islam and Muslims were regulated within legal domains that managed various spheres of life...

Adamson and Ganeri survey the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

In this interview we discuss the sophisticated structure and profound content of the Tiruvaymoli, along with the translator’s own transformative journey rending into English the meaning, emotion, cadence and kaleidoscopic brilliance proper to this Tamil masterpiece...

Cecil weaves together material from the Sanskrit text Skandapurāṇa, physical landscapes, inscriptions, monuments, and icons to provide groundbreaking insight into the earliest known community of Śiva devotees: the Pāśupatas...

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...