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Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
32 mins; December 15, 2023
Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Approach" (Springer, 2023)
48 mins; December 14, 2023
Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1
51 mins; December 07, 2023
Afsar Mohammad, "Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
40 mins; December 06, 2023
Samiparna Samanta, "Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)
69 hours 25 mins; December 02, 2023
Vedic Texts, Indus Script, Aryan Migration
39 mins; November 30, 2023
Greg Bailey, "The Brahmavaivarta Purana (Ganesa Khanda): Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology" (Motilal Banarsidass, 2022)
33 mins; November 23, 2023
Dominik A. Haas, "Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas" (Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023)
52 mins; November 22, 2023
Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor, "Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas" (ANU Press, 2023)
59 mins; November 21, 2023
Keith Cantú, "Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami And Śivarājayoga" (Oxford UP, 2023)
41 mins; November 16, 2023
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)
31 mins; November 09, 2023
Episode 300: Christopher Miller interviews "New Books in Indian Religions" host Raj Balkaran
67 hours 17 mins; November 08, 2023
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
51 mins; November 08, 2023
Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 04, 2023
Christopher Jain Miller, "Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation" (Routledge, 2023)
46 mins; November 02, 2023
Réka Máté, "Portrayals of Women in Pakistan: An Analysis of Fahmīdah Riyāẓ's Urdu Poetry" (de Gruyter, 2023)
35 mins; October 26, 2023
From the Indian Goddess to Icelandic Spirits
60 hours 47 mins; October 19, 2023
Patrick Laude, "Surrendering to the Self: Ramana Maharshi's Message for the Present" (Hurst, 2021)
45 mins; October 12, 2023
The Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik
38 mins; October 09, 2023
Teaching (and Learning) at a University Online
44 mins; October 04, 2023
Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar, "Against High-Caste Polygamy: An Annotated Translation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
44 mins; October 04, 2023
Sumit Chakrabarti, "Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
38 mins; September 28, 2023
Jain Studies and the Arihanta Institute
57 mins; September 25, 2023
Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
54 mins; September 22, 2023
Jennifer D. Ortegren, "Middle-Class Dharma: Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
40 mins; September 21, 2023
Matthew R. Dasti, "Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-Sutra: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
76 hours 45 mins; September 20, 2023
Christopher T. Fleming et al., "Science and Society in the Sanskrit World" (Brill, 2023)
41 mins; September 14, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Richard Sclove, "Escaping Maya's Palace: Decoding an Ancient Myth to Heal the Hidden Madness of Modern Civilization" (Karavelle Press, 2022)
40 mins; September 09, 2023
Oliver Crisp and Daniel J. Hill, eds., "Reason in the Service of Faith: Collected Essays of Paul Helm" (Routledge, 2023)
27 mins; September 08, 2023
Kerry P. C. San Chirico. "Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras" (Oxford UP, 2022)
53 mins; September 07, 2023
Ravi Gupta and Kenneth Valpey, "The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2013)
53 mins; September 06, 2023
Annie Rachel Royson, "Texts, Traditions, and Sacredness: Cultural Translation in Kristapurana" (Routledge, 2023)
53 mins; August 31, 2023
Emilia Bachrach, "Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
45 mins; August 30, 2023
Kelzang T. Tashi, "World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan" (Oxford UP, 2023)
43 mins; August 24, 2023
Sharada Sugirtharajah, "Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
41 mins; August 17, 2023
Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2022)
29 mins; August 10, 2023
Michael Baltutis, "The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance" (SUNY Press, 2023)
51 mins; August 03, 2023
Marnie Feneley, "Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
47 mins; August 01, 2023
Zhihua Yao, "Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
58 mins; July 30, 2023
Brenda E. F. Beck, "Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 27, 2023
Dimitry Shevchenko, "Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self: Mirror of Self: Models of Consciousness in Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita Vedānta" (Oxford UP, 2023)
35 mins; July 20, 2023
Ankur Barua, "Exploring Hindu Philosophy" (Equinox Publishing, 2023)
33 mins; July 13, 2023
Daniel J. Soars and Nadya Pohran, "Hindu-Christian Dual Belonging" (Routledge, 2022)
33 mins; July 06, 2023
Laura Atmadarshan Santoro, "Hearing The Song of Your Soul: A Poetic Translation of the Bhagavad Gita" (2022)
46 mins; July 01, 2023
Sangraha: Digital Cataloguing of Sanskrit Manuscripts
33 mins; June 21, 2023
Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, "Sikh Philosophy: Exploring Gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
66 hours 10 mins; June 20, 2023
Douglas Ober, "Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2023)
98 hours 58 mins; June 16, 2023
Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
56 mins; June 15, 2023
Loriliai Biernacki, "The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and the New Materialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
31 mins; June 08, 2023
Anantanand Rambachan, "Pathways to Hindu-Christian Dialogue" (Augsburg Fortress, 2022)
46 mins; June 01, 2023
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
36 mins; May 30, 2023
How Do We Know What We Know?: A Day School from Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
18 mins; May 29, 2023
Elise Coquereau-Saouma and Daniel Raveh, "The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya" (Routledge, 2022)
26 mins; May 25, 2023
Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)
40 mins; May 25, 2023
Moyukh Chatterjee, "Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities" (Duke UP, 2023)
53 mins; May 20, 2023
Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)
53 mins; May 18, 2023
Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 52 mins; May 18, 2023
The Canadian South Asian Studies Association
29 mins; May 15, 2023
A Conversation with Ramdas Lamb
75 hours 3 mins; May 11, 2023
The International Association of Sanskrit Studies
25 mins; May 10, 2023
Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
61 hours 21 mins; May 04, 2023
Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)
72 hours 51 mins; May 01, 2023
David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)
55 mins; April 27, 2023
Ângela Barreto Xavier, "Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa" (SUNY Press, 2022)
43 mins; April 20, 2023
Learning Hindi with Rajiv Ranjan
52 mins; April 17, 2023
Aleksandar Uskokov, "The Philosophy of the Brahma-sutra: An Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
49 mins; April 13, 2023
A Chat with Sanskrit Scholar John Brockington
27 mins; April 10, 2023
Nishant Kumar, "Religious Offense and Censorship of Publications: An Enquiry Through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary" (Routledge, 2022)
63 hours 3 mins; April 08, 2023
Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination" (U California Press, 2019)
46 mins; April 06, 2023
Laurah E. Klepinger, "Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots" (Lexington Books, 2022)
38 mins; March 30, 2023
Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 54 mins; March 25, 2023
Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
68 hours 50 mins; March 24, 2023
Andrea Acri and Paolo E. Rosati, "Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins" (Routledge, 2022)
46 mins; March 23, 2023
Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
27 mins; March 17, 2023
Ezra Rashkow, "The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; March 16, 2023
Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology
16 mins; March 14, 2023
Audrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)
60 hours 38 mins; March 10, 2023
Greg Bailey, "The Vinayaka Mahatmya" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
55 mins; March 09, 2023
Veena R. Howard et al., "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
46 mins; March 02, 2023
Rick Repetti, "Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation" (Routledge, 2022)
50 mins; February 23, 2023
The UW-Madison Center for South Asia
33 mins; February 22, 2023
Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 17 mins; February 20, 2023
Stephanie Corigliano on TARKA
39 mins; February 18, 2023
Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)
25 mins; February 16, 2023
Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)
47 mins; February 11, 2023
Ute Hüsken, "Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
46 mins; February 02, 2023
Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
57 mins; February 01, 2023
Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)
41 mins; January 26, 2023
Malini Ambach et al., "Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives" (HASP, 2022)
41 mins; January 19, 2023
Simon Brodbeck, "Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata" (Cardiff UP, 2022)
53 mins; January 12, 2023
Patrick Olivelle, "Reading Texts and Narrating History: Collected Essays III" (Primus Books, 2022)
51 mins; January 09, 2023
Robert M. Geraci, "Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2021)
44 mins; January 05, 2023
Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Lord Parshuram
24 mins; December 30, 2022
Mani Rao, "Saundarya Lahari: Wave of Beauty" (HarperCollins, 2022)
43 mins; December 29, 2022
Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
78 hours 1 min; December 22, 2022
Holly Walters, "Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
50 mins; December 22, 2022
John Stratton Hawley, "A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement" (Harvard UP, 2015)
51 mins; December 20, 2022
The World Sanskrit Conference: A Discussion with McComas Taylor
25 mins; December 16, 2022
The Past and Future of the Dharma Academy of North America
83 hours 15 mins; December 13, 2022
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