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About Kshitij Jain
I am currently pursuing my MPhil in Classical Indian Religion at the University of Oxford. My primary areas of interest include Sanskrit narratives, Jain narrative literature and specifically the questions related to how Jains engaged with the non-Jain communities through their narrative literature being situated as a minority community in pre- modern society, formulating a unique socioreligious identity of their own. Apart from this, I am also interested in the intellectual history of India, especially the ancient philosophical and political traditions of ancient India.
Kshitij Jain is pursuing an MPhil in Classical Indian Religion at the University of Oxford.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kshitij:
March 1, 2026
Visualizing Devotion
Textiles, embroidered with religious imagery, express lay piety in public and private shrinesThis beautifully illustrated volume highlights Jain devot…
December 20, 2025
Seeing Through Religion
Seeing Through Religion is a cutting-edge textbook that gives students the tools to learn this valuable subject theoretically, McGovern argues that re…
October 25, 2025
The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals
How did Brahma create alluring women, and for what purpose? Why did the righteous King Bhangashvana choose womanhood? How did the sage Markandeya's pu…
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…
June 21, 2025
Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice
A vast corpus of Jain texts lies unexamined in manuscript libraries, several of them new versions of earlier works. Though the prevalence of literary …
March 18, 2025
The Other Rama
The Other Rāma (SUNY Press, 2020) presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of Viṣṇu best known…
January 5, 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…
November 27, 2024
The Dattatreyayogasastra
This book introduces, edits and translates the Dattātreyayogaśātra, a Sanskrit text on yoga composed in about 1200 CE in South India. It teaches four …
October 30, 2024
Classical Sanskrit Tragedy
It is often assumed that classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic. However, as Bihani Sarkar makes clear in Classical Sanskr…
August 19, 2024
Sundar's Dreams
Dalpat Rajpurohit's book Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry (Rajkamal, 2022) explores the making and lifespan of a…
July 30, 2024
The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya
In The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya (SUNY Press, 2024), Steven E. Lindquist investigates the intersections between historical context and literary pro…
July 30, 2024
The Hindu Self and Its Muslim Neighbors
In The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors, the author sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument …
July 6, 2024
Making a Mantra
Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, …
April 29, 2024
The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Goraksanatha
The Lineage of Immortals (Sanskrit Amaraugha) is the earliest account of a fourfold system of yoga in which a physical practice called Haṭha is taught…
April 8, 2024
The Golden Road
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilization, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religi…
March 15, 2024
The Life of Padma, Volume 2
The Life of Padma, or the Paümacariu, is a richly expressive Jain retelling in the Apabhramsha language of the famous Ramayana tale. It was written by…
March 8, 2024
Ashoka
There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of th…