New Books in Indian Religions

New Books in Indian Religions


Latest Episodes

Hamsa Stainton, "Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2019)
June 11, 2020

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...

Deepra Dandekar, “The Subhedar's Son” (Oxford UP, 2019)
June 10, 2020

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

John Stratton Hawley, “Krishna's Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century” (Oxford UP, 2020)
June 08, 2020

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

Caleb Simmons, "Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 15, 2020

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

Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy" (Routledge, 2020)
May 13, 2020

This ground-breaking work on Indian philosophical doxography examines the function of dialectical texts within their intellectual and religious milieu

Kevin McGrath, "Vyāsa Redux: Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata" (Anthem Press, 2019)
May 11, 2020

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...

Alexander Rocklin, "The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad" (UNC Press, 2019)
May 08, 2020

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

A Conversation with Nicholas Sutton of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
May 06, 2020

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