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...

Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion.

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

Arik Moran examines three Rajput kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories and court intrigues.

Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...

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

Elison explores how slum residents, tribal people, and members of other marginalized groups use religious icons to mark urban spaces in Mumbai...

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...