Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.

Broadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds.

The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma (“Rāma with the Axe”), an avatára of Viṣṇu with a much darker reputation.

Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.

Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.

Explores the role of meditation on the five elements in the practice of Yoga.

A rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas.

A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.

Explores the contemporary nature and the diverse narratives, rituals, and performances of the Navarātri Festival.

Presents rare biographies of traditional Indian scholars during the nineteenth century, a critical moment of transition for the Indian intellectual tradition.

This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time.

Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.

Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.

Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.

Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.

Illuminates the contradictions that emerge within conscious capitalism initiatives that are designed to empower women.

Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.

A collection of Raj’s groundbreaking ethnographic studies of “vernacular” Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.

Offers a fresh perspective on the Mahābhārata based on an exploration of its ending, the Svargārohaṇa parvan.

Uses two case studies to demonstrate how neoliberal reforms in India have de-democratized labor politics.

Explores the activities and political personas of women activists in Shiv Sena, a militant Indian political party.