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Elise Coquereau-Saouma and Daniel Raveh, "The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya" (Routledge, 2022)
This book engages in a dialogue with Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (K.C. Bhattacharyya, KCB, 1875-1949) and opens a vista to contemporary Indian philosophy.
KCB is one of the founding fathers of contemporary Indian...
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Moyukh Chatterjee, "Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities" (Duke UP, 2023)
In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left more than one thousand dead. In Composing Violence: The Limits...
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Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Are meditation and yoga offered to prisoners merely to have them acquiesce to being incarcerated and degraded? Or can they help prisoners interrogate the political and social structures that incarcerate and...
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Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (U California Press, 2023) explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a...
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The Canadian South Asian Studies Association
Andrea Farran and Julie Vig discuss the fast approaching first in-person Canadian South Asian Studies Association hybrid conference. This hybrid conference welcomes global participation. Join the List Serve for...
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A Conversation with Ramdas Lamb
A candid conversation with Ramdas Lamb about his experiences as a sadhu, his journey to academia and his professorial pedagogy.
Ramdas Lamb received a Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors in 1980 and a Master of...
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The International Association of Sanskrit Studies
The newly-elected first female president of the The International Association of Sanskrit Studies, Dr. Dipti Tripathi discusses Association’s genesis, mandate, and potential in honour of its 50th year.
Raj Balkaran is...
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Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi was an Italian Jesuit who worked in South India from 1710 to 1747. A brilliant scholar of Tamil, his works include hymns, instructions for catechists, and a robust defense of the Catholic...
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Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)
South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the earliest days of the faith. The stories of South...
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David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Kūṭiyāṭṭam, India’s only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. David Shulman and Heike Oberlin's Two Masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Mantrankam and...
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Ângela Barreto Xavier, "Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa" (SUNY Press, 2022)
How did the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take place? How was it related to projects for the conversion of Goan colonial subjects to Catholicism?
In Religion and Empire in Portuguese...
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Learning Hindi with Rajiv Ranjan
Rajiv Ranjan discusses his second language acquisition journey, open educational resources, and teaching philosophy. You can study with him at Yogic Studies.
Rajiv Ranjan is an Assistant Professor in the Department...
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