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August 18, 2025
Learning Ancient Languages
Sanskritist and seasoned teacher Dr. Antonia Ruppel shares her views on the merits and pitfalls of academic enterprise, the brave new world of self-em…
August 14, 2025
India and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things
The book, the third volume to emerge from the enterprise known as 'The Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics', attempts to further the col…
August 11, 2025
Cave of My Ancestors
On the podcast today I am joined by Kirin Narayan, emerita professor at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Kir…
August 7, 2025
Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta
The Krama School of the Trika Saivism of Kashmir, more familiar as Kalikrama in the contemporary parlance, has turned out to be the most crucial among…
July 31, 2025
Invisible Fire
Invisible Fire by Joanna Jurewicz explores early Hindu philosophy through the Manusmṛti, Bhagavadgītā, and Mokṣadharma, showing that reality is a sing…
July 24, 2025
One God and Two Religions
Islam is a religion of violence and behind every Muslim there lurks a potential terrorist. Islam is a threat to values of the Christian West. They are…
July 23, 2025
Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence
This monograph outlines the core principles of equity and trusts in Sanskrit jurisprudence (Dharmaśāstra) and traces their application in the practica…
July 22, 2025
India
Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to As…
July 19, 2025
Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original an…
July 17, 2025
A Hindu-Jewish Conversation
This book engages historically and theologically with the Hindu and Jewish traditions, covering conceptions of the divine, religious heroes, women, de…
July 10, 2025
Empire Inside Out
Examining the interplay of religion, history, and literature through a case study of King Krsnadevaraya's celebrated Telugu poem Āmuktamālyada, Ilanit…
July 3, 2025
The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies
Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars of religion, tantra has posed a challenge. The representation of tantra,…
June 26, 2025
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered
Today the number of native speakers of Indo-European languages across the world is approximated to be over 2.6 billion—about 45 percent of the Earth’s…
June 19, 2025
Claiming Citizenship
Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization Among New Americans (Oxford UP, 2025) looks at Indian Americans, currently the second…
June 17, 2025
Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness in India
Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness in India: Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, the Hari-Hara Mystery, and the Hindu-Christian Encounter …
June 12, 2025
An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963-64
Wendy Doniger’s An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963–64 (SUNY Press, 2023) is a memoir-style collection of letters and reflectio…
June 9, 2025
डान् क्विक्षोटः Don Quixote
The present book contains a facsimile edition of a unique modern Kashmiri translation of five chapters from Cervantes’s famous Don Quijote. In this bo…
June 5, 2025
Authenticity, Legitimacy and the Transglobal Yoga Industry
This book is a sociological study of knowledge and knowers and explores the production and perceived value of 'yogic knowledge', how distinction is cu…
May 29, 2025
Transformed by India
With a compelling story, wit, insight, and candor, American author Stephen Huyler leads the reader into the heart of India. It is a country and cultur…
May 22, 2025
Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh
Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence (Routledge, 2025) comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and …