An interview with Zoë Slatoff

An interview with Ben Williams

An interview with Namit Arora

An interview with Peter Christiaan Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi

An interview with Lavanya Vemsani

An interview with Michael Nichols

An interview with Brian Collins

An interview with Chitgopekar Nilima

An interview with Frank Clooney

An interview with Jon Keune

An interview with Arti Dhand

An interview with Karen G. Ruffle

An interview with Michael D. Nichols

An interview with Jacqueline Fewkes and Megan Adamson Sijapati

An interview with Bhakti Marg Swami

An interview with Raj Balkaran

An interview with Kate Hartmann

An interview with Brenda Beck

An interview with Gil Ben-Herut and Jon Keune

An interview with Birinder Pal Singh

An interview with Hillary Rodrigues

An interview with Daniel Heifetz

An interview with Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai

An interview with Ayesha A. Irani

An interview with Ian Whicher

An interview with Daniel Raveh

An interview with Lokesh Ohri

An interview with Douglas Osto

An interview with Vanessa R. Sasson

An interview with Steven Collins

An interview with Arvind Sharma

An interview with Francis X. Clooney

An interview with Christopher Key Chapple

An interview with Bibek Debroy

An interview with Michael P. Brunner

An interview with Christopher T. Fleming

An interview with Knut A. Jacobsen

An interview with Chad M. Bauman and Michelle Voss Roberts

An interview with Xenia Zeiler

An interview with Tulasi Srinivas

An Interview with Chad M. Bauman

An interview with Stuart Ray Sarbacker

An interview with Gopal K. Gupta

An interview with Theodora Wildcroft

An interview with Leah Comeau

Maharaj offers first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy...

Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world...

Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire?

This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,

Since the late 1990s, the Indian community in Australia has grown faster than any other immigrant community....

Much of what is said about yoga is misleading.,.

This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques...

Fernandes explores the interconnected themes of language, citizenship and identity, showing how, by deliberately excluding the Roman script, the largely lower-caste and lower-class Catholic users of this script were denoted as less-than-authentic members of civil society....

Theodor offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia....

At once a reflection on inequality and a call to arms, Caste Matters argues that until Dalits lay claim to power and Brahmins join hands against Brahminism to effect real transformation, caste will continue to matter...

Jain examines the interconnectedness between global spirituality and neoliberal capitalism through an examination of the global yoga and self-care industries...

Ferrante shows how a set of tenth century philosophers living in Kashmir argue for the existence of a self on the basis of the interrelationship between linguistic concepts and mental experience...

The authors offer is a multi-faceted and wide-ranging collection that examines cinematic representations of real-life horror...

This book traces the little-known yet unparalleled influence of Shrimad Rajchandra, Jain zaveri (jeweller)-cum-spiritual seeker, on Mahatma Gandhi...

This book takes as its subject the multiple forms of architecture, design and sociability that Hindu spaces of worship encompass today...

Mukhopadhyay excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining...

Heroic Saktism is the belief that a good king and a true warrior must worship the goddess Durga, the form and substance of kingship...

Padma focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility...

Slouber surveys the diversity of India's feminine divine tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess narratives from different regions....

For millions worldwide, the Devi Mahatmyam is of central spiritual importance and of equal cultural significance within Indian Sanskrit literature to the Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, and the Ramayana...

What counts as contemplative practices in Hinduism? What can Hindu Studies offer Contemplative Studies as a discipline?

Is religion indispensable to public life?

How do Judaism and Hinduism compare as religions?

What is the relationship between science, religion and technology in Hinduism?

Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...

Keating offers a ground-breaking reference resource for understanding arthāpati, and debates in Indian philosophy at large....

Gansten offers the first-ever scholarly volume on Sanskritized Perso-Arabic (Tājika) astrology...

Nair offers intellectually daring and dazzlingly imaginative study of scholarly interactions, made visible through translation, between Sanskrit and Arabo-Persian philosophical traditions in premodern South Asia...

Long explores the influence of concepts such karma, rebirth, meditation and yoga on the American consciousness, along with Hindu temples in America...

The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women’s sexuality on the other...

What is "Yogic Studies"?

The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...

This ethnographic journey across three Indian locales examines the agency of various materials – from ornaments, to female guising, to cement images....

Bronkhorst makes the case through an extensive introduction and select translations of important Indian texts that language has a crucial role in Indian thought...

Haberman explores the worship world of Mount Govardhan; located in the Braj region of India, the mountain is considered an embodied form of the Hindu deity Krishna...

In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...

Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar...

What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?

Why are the myths of the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa framed by myths glorifying the Sun, Sūrya?

Halperin employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up...

Foxen traces several disparate yet entangled roots of modern yoga practice to show that much of what we call yoga...

Moise offers a comprehensive description of the ‘doctrine of salvation’ (niḥśreyasa/ mokṣa) and Vaiśeṣika...

Stainton explores the relationship between 'poetry’ and ‘prayer’ in South Asia through close examination of the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir from the eighth century onwards...

"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...

What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under?

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

What is Sanskrit Studies?

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

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...

Rocklin draws on colonial archives and ethnographic work in this pioneering examination of the realities of indentured workers in colonial Trinidad...

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

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

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?