New Books in Indian Religions

New Books in Indian Religions


Latest Episodes

Brian Collins, "The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma" (SUNY Press, 2020)
May 04, 2020

Collins examines a fascinating, understudied figure appearing in Sanskrit narrative texts: Paraśurāma, i.e., “Rāma with the Axe”...

Peter Adamson, "Classical Indian Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2020)
April 29, 2020

Adamson and Ganeri survey the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions...

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
April 28, 2020

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Archana Venkatesan, "Endless Song: Tiruvaymoli" (Penguin, 2010)
April 27, 2020

In this interview we discuss the sophisticated structure and profound content of the Tiruvaymoli, along with the translator’s own transformative journey rending into English the meaning, emotion, cadence and kaleidoscopic brilliance proper to this Tamil m

Elizabeth A. Cecil, "Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape" (Brill, 2020)
April 22, 2020

Cecil weaves together material from the Sanskrit text Skandapurāṇa, physical landscapes, inscriptions, monuments, and icons to provide groundbreaking insight into the earliest known community of Śiva devotees: the Pāśupatas...

Suzanne Newcombe, "Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis" (Equinox, 2019)
April 21, 2020

Newcombe charts the trajectory of how yoga in became mainstream in Britain to the point of being taught to thousands of middle-class women in adult education classes...

Pankaj Jain, "Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora" (Routledge, 2019)
April 15, 2020

Jain offers a concise history of Hindus and Jains in the Americas over the last two centuries..

Knut A. Jacobsen, "Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga" (Routledge, 2017)
April 08, 2020

Jacobsen examines the Kāpil Maṭh, a Sāṃkhyayoga institution emerging in the late nineteenth century Bengal...

Kate Imy, "Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army" (Stanford UP, 2019)
April 03, 2020

"Faithful Fighters" is a powerful and brilliant meditation on the impossibility of modern colonial power to canonize religion and religious identity...

Brian A. Hatcher, "Hinduism Before Reform" (Harvard UP, 2020)
April 01, 2020

Did modern Hinduism truly emerge due to the “reforms” instigated by “progressive” colonial figures such as Rammohun Roy?