Hinduism

Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga or Kali, or the...

Tucked away in ancient Sanskrit and Bengali texts is a secret teaching, a blissful devotional (bhakti) tradition that involves sacred congregationa...

An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.At the time of the India-Pakistan partition in 1...

South Asian Goddesses and the Natural Environment is a multidisciplinary collection of 11 essays ranging from the pre-Vedic to the modern era and i...

The main sources for an understanding of classical Hindu law are the Sanskrit treatises on religious and legal duties, known as the Dharmastras. In...

This collection brings together a series of Patrick Olivelles research papers, published over a period of about ten years, whose unifying theme is ...

Composed by three poet-saints between the sixth and eighth centuries A.D., the Tevaram hymns are the primary scripture of the Tamil Saivism, one of...

Composed by three poet-saints between the sixth and eighth centuries A.D., the Tevaram hymns are the primary scripture of the Tamil Saivism, one of...

Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gender...

Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia explores the dynamic constructions and applications of the concept of tradition t...

The Anthropologist and the Native is a collection of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the ...

This book examines the life of a nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Tamil yogin named Sri Sabhapati Swami (r Sabhpati Svm or Cappati Cuvmika, c...

This is a sequel to a volume published in 2011 by OUP under the title The Ubiquitous iva: Somnanda's ivadi and his Tantric Interlocutors. The first...

Advaita Vedanta is one of the best-known schools of Indian philosophy, but much of its history--a history closely interwoven with that of medieval ...

Winner, 2024 Book Award, Dharma Academy of North AmericaThe Bhagavad Gt is one of the treasures of world culture. Sacred in India, and beloved to h...

During British colonial rule in India, the treatment of high-caste Hindu widows became the subject of great controversy. Such women were not permit...

The oldest extant Marathi work, a medieval chronicle of Chakradhars divine life on earth, in a new English translation.God at Play, or Lcaritra, is...

This comprehensive new presentation of the religion of the Rigveda is the result of a thorough-going endeavour to extrapolate historical circumstan...