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

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

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...

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

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..

How does the world of book reviews work?

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...

While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline...

This is the first sustained study of an important figure in Hindu narrative, one largely obscure to readers and scholars alike: Kṛṣṇa's son Pradyumna...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Gurumaa’s syncretic approach innovates Hindu religiosity, as does her progressive attitudes towards treatment of women...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...

Was ancient India ruled by politics or religion?

Beginning in the mid 19th century, thousands of indentured laborers traveled from India to the Caribbean, and many settled in Trinidad...

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

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

The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..

This book features an investigation of men donning a women’s guises to impersonate female characters...

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?

Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...