Examines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality.

Examines English-language Indian newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century and their role in simultaneously sustaining and probing British colonial governance.

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

Draws on two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition to argue for the contemporary philosophical relevance of “culture.”

A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.

Examines the key role of a hagiographer within a charismatic religious movement.

Brings early Daoist writings into conversation with contemporary contemplative studies.

Questions universities’ increasing reliance on market-oriented metrics to determine their strategic directions and gauge faculty productivity.

Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.

The first English-language translation of an important figure in modern Confucian thought.

Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.