Ian Whicher on The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga (SUNY Press 1998)

  • Podcast #100, published 2021-4-13.


Daniel Raveh on Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy: A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge (Bloomsbury Publishing 2020)

  • Podcast #99, published 2021-3-30.


Lokesh Ohri on Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya (SUNY Press 2021)

  • Podcast #98, published 2021-3-23.


Douglas Osto on An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Śaivism (SUNY Press 2021)

  • Podcast #97, published 2021-3-19.


Arvind Sharma on Religious Tolerance: A History (Harper Collins 2019)

  • Podcast #96, published 2021-3-12.


Francis X. Clooney on Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters (Harper Collins 2019)

  • Podcast #95, published 2021-3-5.


Christopher Chapple on Yoga in Jainism (Routledge 2015)

  • Podcast #94, published 2021-3-2.


Bibek Debroy on The Mahabharata (Penguin 2015)

  • Podcast #93, published 2021-2-25.



Christopher T. Fleming on Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #91, published 2021-2-17.


Knut A. Jacobsen on Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #90, published 2021-2-9.


Chad M. Bauman and Michelle Voss Roberts on The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #89, published 2021-2-3.


Xenia Zeiler on Digital Hinduism (Routledge 2019)

  • Podcast #88, published 2021-1-26.


Chad M. Bauman on Anti-Christian Violence in India (Cornell University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #87, published 2021-1-20.


Stuart Ray Sarbacker on Tracing the Path of Yoga: The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline (SUNY Press 2021)

  • Podcast #86, published 2021-1-12.


Gopal K. Gupta on Maya in the Bhagavata Purana: Human Suffering and Divine Play (Oxford University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #85, published 2021-1-8.


Theodora Wildcroft on Post-lineage Yoga: From Guru to metoo (Equinox 2020)

  • Podcast #84, published 2020-12-29.


Leah Elizabeth Comeau on Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World (Bloomsbury Academic 2020)

  • Podcast #83, published 2020-12-18.


Ayon Maharaj on The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta (Bloomsbury Academic 2020)

  • Podcast #82, published 2020-12-14.


Amanda J. Lucia on White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals (University of California Press 2020)

  • Podcast #81, published 2020-12-11.


Leela Prasad on The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India (Cornell University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #80, published 2020-12-9.


Brian Black on In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #79, published 2020-12-7.


Jayant B. Bapat, Purushottama Bilimoria and Philip Hughes on The Indian Diaspora: Hindus and Sikhs in Australia (Manticore Press 2019)

  • Podcast #78, published 2020-12-3.


Daniel Simpson on The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga's History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices (North Point Press 2021)

  • Podcast #77, published 2020-12-2.


Suzanne Newcombe and Karen O'Brien-Kop on Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #76, published 2020-11-30.


Ithamar Theodor on The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical Introduction (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #75, published 2020-11-27.


Ellen Goldberg, Aditi Sen and Brian Collins on Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #74, published 2020-11-18.


Uma Majmudar on Gandhi and Rajchandra: The Making of the Mahatma (Lexington Books 2020)

  • Podcast #73, published 2020-11-6.


Annapurna Garimella on The Contemporary Hindu Temple (Marg Foundation 2019)

  • Podcast #72, published 2020-11-3.


Anway Mukhopadhyay on The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions (Palgrave 2020)

  • Podcast #71, published 2020-10-26.


Bihani Sarkar on Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship (Oxford University Press 2017)

  • Podcast #70, published 2020-10-16.


Sree Padma on Vicissitudes of the Goddess: Reconstructions of the Gramadevata in India's Religious Traditions (Oxford University Press 2013)

  • Podcast #69, published 2020-10-15.


Michael Slouber on A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Feminine Divine from India and Beyond (University of California Press 2020)

  • Podcast #68, published 2020-10-13.


Tim Bruce on Devi Mahatmyam: The Glory of the Goddess (Raconteurs Audio LLP 2020)

  • Podcast #67, published 2020-10-12.


Rita D. Sherma and Purushottama Bilimoria on Contemplative Studies in Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #66, published 2020-10-9.


Sanjay Lal on Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy (Lexington Books 2019)

  • Podcast #65, published 2020-10-5.


Alan Brill on Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter (Lexington Books 2019)

  • Podcast #64, published 2020-10-2.


Robert M. Geraci on Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science (Lexington Books 2018)

  • Podcast #63, published 2020-9-29.


Neela Bhattacharya Saxena on Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism (Rowman & Littlefield 2015)

  • Podcast #62, published 2020-9-22.


Malcolm Keating on Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthāpatti (Bloomsbury Academic 2020)

  • Podcast #61, published 2020-9-15.


Martin Gansten on The Jewel of Annual Astrology: A Translation of Balabhadra's Hāyanaratna (Brill 2020)

  • Podcast #60, published 2020-8-28.


Jeffery D. Long on Hinduism in America (Bloomsbury Academic 2020)

  • Podcast #59, published 2020-8-26.


Arti Dhand on Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata (SUNY Press 2008)

  • Podcast #58, published 2020-8-24.


A Discussion with Seth Powell about Yogic Studies

  • Podcast #57, published 2020-8-4.


A Conversation with Chris Chapple: Part II, Living Landscapes

  • Podcast #56, published 2020-7-24.


Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger on Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds (SUNY Press 2020)

  • Podcast #55, published 2020-7-22


David L. Haberman on Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan (Oxford University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #54, published 2020-7-14.


A Conversation with Chris Chapple: Part I, MA in Yoga Studies

  • Podcast #53, published 2020-7-13.


Drew Thomases on Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India (Oxford University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #52, published 2020-7-1.


Adheesh Sathaye on Crossing the Lines of Caste: Viśvāmitra and the Construction of Brahmin Power in Hindu Mythology (Oxford University Press 2015)

  • Podcast #51, published 2020-6-26.



Ehud Halperin on The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess: Hadimba, Her Devotees, and Religion in Rapid Change (Oxford University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #49, published 2020-6-23.


Anya P. Foxen on Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga (Oxford University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #48, published 2020-6-19.


Ionut Moise on Salvation in Indian Philosophy: Perfection and Simplicity for Vaiśeṣika (Routledge 2019)

  • Podcast #47, published 2020-6-15.


Hamsa Stainton on Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir (Oxford University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #46, published 2020-6-11.


Deepra Dandekar on The Subhedar's Son: A Narrative of Brahmin-Christian Conversion from Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra (Oxford University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #45, published 2020-6-10.


John Stratton Hawley on Krishna's Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #44, published 2020-6-8.


A. M. Ruppel on Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit (Cambridge University Press 2017)

  • Podcast #43, published 2020-5-27.


Caleb Simmons on Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India (Oxford University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #42, published 2020-5-15.


Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette on Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy: Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #41, published 2020-5-13.


Kevin McGrath on Vyāsa Redux: Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata (Anthem Press 2019)

  • Podcast #40, published 2020-5-11.


Alexander Rocklin on The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad (University of North Carolina Press 2019)

  • Podcast #39, published 2020-5-8.


A Conversation with Nicholas Sutton: Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

  • Podcast #38, published 2020-5-6.


Brian Collins on The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma (SUNY Press 2020)

  • Podcast #37, published 2020-5-4.


Peter Adamson on Classical Indian Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (Oxford University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #36, published 2020-4-29.


Archana Venkatesan on Endless Song: Tiruvaymoli (Penguin 2019)

  • Podcast #35, published 2020-4-27.



Suzanne Newcombe on Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis (Equinox 2019)

  • Podcast #33, published 2020-4-21.


Pankaj Jain on Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora (Routledge 2019)

  • Podcast #32, published 2020-4-15.


Knut A. Jacobsen on Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga (Routledge 2017)

  • Podcast #31, published 2020-4-8.


Brian A. Hatcher on Hinduism Before Reform (Harvard University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #30, published 2020-4-1.


Jennifer B. Saunders on Imagining Religious Communities: Transnational Hindus and their Narrative Performances (Oxford University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #29, published 2020-2-25.


Kenneth R. Valpey on Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan 2019)

  • Podcast #28, published 2020-1-16.


Simon Brodbeck on Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata (Oxford University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #27, published 2019-12-26.


Christopher Austin on Pradyumna: Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara (Oxford University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #26, published 2019-12-12.


Angela Rudert on Shakti's New Voice: Guru Devotion in a Women-Led Spiritual Movement (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

  • Podcast #25, published 2019-11-20.


Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee on Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism (Anthem Press2018)

  • Podcast #24, published 2019-10-21.


Mark McClish on The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India (Cambridge University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #23, published 2019-10-9.


Arik Moran on Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland (Amsterdam University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #22, published 2019-8-28.


William Elison on The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai (University of Chicago Press 2018)

  • Podcast #21, published 2019-8-21.


Ithamar Theodor on Exploring the Bhagavad Gītā: Philosophy, Structure and Meaning (Routledge 2016)

  • Podcast #20, published 2019-8-12.


Harshita M. Kamath on The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (University of California Press 2019)

  • Podcast #19, published 2019-8-8.


Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz on Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal (Oxford University Press 2018)

  • Podcast #18, published 2019-8-6.


John Stratton Hawley, Christian Lee Novetzke and Swapna Sharma on Bhakti and Power: Debating India's Religion of the Heart (University of Washington Press 2019)

  • Podcast #17, published 2019-7-30.


Marko Geslani on Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism (Oxford University Press 2018)

  • Podcast #16, published 2019-7-16.


Patton E. Burchett on A Genealogy of Devotion: Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism in North India (Columbia University Press 2019)

  • Podcast #15, published 2019-6-14.


Anway Mukhopadhyay on The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devī as Corpse (Routledge 2018)

  • Podcast #14, published 2019-5-8.


A. M. Ruppel on The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit (Cambridge University Press 2017)

  • Podcast #13, published 2019-5-1.


Raj Balkaran on The Goddess and The King in Indian Myth: Ring Composition, Royal Power and The Dharmic Double Helix (Routledge 2018)

  • Podcast #12, published 2019-4-26.


Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad on In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation (Routledge 2019)

  • Podcast #11, published 2019-4-23.


David V. Mason on The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre (Routledge 2018)

  • Podcast #10, published 2019-4-17.


Borayin Larios on Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra (De Gruyter 2017)

  • Podcast #9, published 2019-3-22.


Nathan McGovern on The Snake and The Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion (Oxford University Press 2018)

  • Podcast #8, published 2019-3-19.


Prakash Shah on Western Foundations of the Caste System (Palgrave Macmillan 2017)

  • Podcast #7, published 2019-3-13.


Shyam Ranganathan on Hinduism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation (Routledge 2018)

  • Podcast #3, published 2018-8-20.


Sucharita Adluri on Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana (Routledge 2014)

  • Podcast #2, published 2018-8-2.


Elaine Fisher on Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South Asia (University of California Press 2017)

  • Podcast #1, published 2018-5-21.