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?

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

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...