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...