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...

Moodie examines the history of the Kalighat temple of Kolkata...

Why is the Indian Goddess sometimes figured as a corpse in Tantric Traditions?

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?

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?

Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative...

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 information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Nathan McGovern draws on ancient texts to problematize the distinction between Brahman and non-Brahman in this era, shedding light on the presence of various Buddhist, Jain and Vedic groups who equally identified as Brahmans.