The New Books in Indian Religions Podcast

Dr. Raj Balkaran’s interviews with the foremost scholars in the field about their cutting edge research.

• Srilata Raman on The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood (Routledge, 2022).

  • Podcast #199, published 2022-06-23.

• Karen O’Brien-Kop on Rethinking ‘Classical Yoga’ and Buddhism: Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021).

  • Podcast #198, published 2022-06-16.

• Roger R. Jackson on Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World (Shambhala Publications, 2022).

  • Podcast #197, published 2022-06-09.

• Richard G. Marks on Jewish Approaches to Hinduism: A History of Ideas from Judah Ha-Levi to Jacob Sapir (12th–19th centuries) (Routledge, 2022).

  • Podcast #196, published 2022-06-02.

• Peter Scharf on Sabdanugamah: Indian Linguistic Studies in Honor of George Cardona (The Sanskrit Library, 2021).

  • Podcast #195, published 2022-05-26.

• Emma Natalya Stein on Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples (Amsterdam University Press, 2021).

  • Podcast #194, published 2022-05-19.

• Banu Subramaniam on Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (University of Washington Press, 2019).

  • Podcast #193, published 2022-05-12.

• Julie Vig and Andrea Pinkney on South Asian Studies in Canada (New Books Network, 2022).

  • Podcast #192, published 2022-05-05.

• Aleix Ruiz-Falqués on The Importance of Pail: The Language of Ancient Buddhism (New Books Network, 2022).

  • Podcast #191, published 2022-05-04.

• Gregory M. Clines on Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation (Routledge, 2022).

  • Podcast #190, published 2022-05-02.

• Anthony Cerulli on The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India (University of California Press, 2022).

  • Podcast #189, published 2022-04-28.

• Perry Myers on Spiritual Empires in Europe and India: Cosmopolitan Religious Movements from 1875 to the Interwar Era (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021).

  • Podcast #188, published 2022-04-21.

• Patrick Olivelle on Gṛhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture (Oxford University Press, 2019).

  • Podcast #187, published 2022-04-14.

• Karen O’Brien-Kop,  Brian Black, Avni Chag, and Kush Depala on The Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions (New Books Network, 2022).

  • Podcast #186, published 2022-04-11.

• M. K. Raghvendra on The Hindu Nation: A Reconciliation with Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2021).

  • Podcast #185, published 2022-04-7.

• Swami Medhananda on Swami Vivekananda's Vedantic Cosmopolitanism (Oxford University Press, 2022).

  • Podcast #184, published 2022-03-31.

• Deepra Dandekar on Baba Padmanji: Vernacular Christianity in Colonial India (Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2020).

  • Podcast #183, published 2022-03-24.

• Samuel Wright on A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500-1700 C.E (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  • Podcast #182, published 2022-03-17.

• Jeffery D. Long and Michael G. Long on Nonviolence in the World's Religions: A Concise Introduction (Routledge, 2021).

  • Podcast #181, published 2022-03-10.

• James McHugh on An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  • Podcast #180, published 2022-03-03.

• Diana Dimitrova on Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions (Routledge, 2020).

  • Podcast #179, published 2022-02-24.

• Jarrod Whitaker on Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India (Oxford University Press, 2011).

  • Podcast #178, published 2022-02-17.

• Walter Dorn and Andrew Bartles-Smith on Hinduism and International Humanitarian Law (New Books Network, 2022).

  • Podcast #177, published 2022-02-16.

• Gitte Bechsgaard and Gillian McCann on Yoga and Alignment: From the Upanishads to B. K. S. Iyengar (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021).

  • Podcast #176, published 2022-02-10.

• Julian Strube on Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2022).

  • Podcast #175, published 2022-02-03.

• A Conversation with Hanuman Dass, Founder and Chairman of Go Dharmic.

  • Podcast #174, published 2022-01-27.

• Rita D. Sherma on Swami Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy, and Liberative Ethics (Lexington Books, 2021).

  • Podcast #173, published 2022-01-20.

• A Conversation with Laurie Patton, Professor of Religions and President of Middlebury College.

  • Podcast #172, published 2022-01-13.

• Neha Sahgal on Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation (Pew Research Centre, 2021).

  • Podcast #171, published 2022-01-05.

• Ionut Moise and Ganesh U. Thite on Vaiśeṣikasūtra: A New Translation (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  • Podcast #170, published 2021-12-30.

• E. H. Rick Jarow on The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  • Podcast #169, published 2021-12-23.

• A Conversation with Vasudha Narayanan about Hindu Studies.

  • Podcast #168, published 2021-12-21.

• Gloria Maité Hernández on Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics (Oxford University Press 2021)

  • Podcast #167, published 2021-12-16.

• Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan, and Astrid Zotter on Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs (SUNY Press 2021)

  • Podcast #166, published 2021-12-9.

• Sabrina D. MisirHiralall on Devotional Hindu Dance: A Return to the Sacred (Palgrave Macmillan 2021)

  • Podcast #165, published 2021-12-2.

• Jyotirmaya Sharma on Elusive Nonviolence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa (Westland 2021)

  • Podcast #164, published 2021-11-30.

• Atmadarshan Laura Santoro on Song of Your Soul: A New Translation of Bhagavad Gita (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #163, published 2021-11-24.

• A Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2) Sanskrit Tools on the Web (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #162, published 2021-11-18.

• Clara A. B. Joseph on Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #161, published 2021-11-17.

• Suchitra Samanta on Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience (Lexington Books 2021)

  • Podcast #160, published 2021-11-15.

• A Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 1) Sanskrit Tools on the Web (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #159, published 2021-11-11.

• Manu S. Pillai on False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma (Juggernauth 2021)

  • Podcast #158, published 2021-11-4.

• Koral Dasgupta on Kunti: The Sati Series II (Pan Macmillan India 2021)

  • Podcast #157, published 2021-10-28.

• Katherine Young on Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin Śrīvaiṣṇavas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu (Orient Blackswan 2021)

  • Podcast #156, published 2021-10-21.

• Antonia M. Ruppel on An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency (Brill 2021)

  • Podcast #155, published 2021-10-14.

• Mans Broo on The Rādhā Tantra: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation (Routledge 2016)

  • Podcast #154, published 2021-10-7.

• Wendy Doniger on Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History (University of Virginia Press 2021)

  • Podcast #153, published 2021-10-5.

• John Nemec on The Ubiquitous Siva: Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Philosophical Interlocutors (Oxford University Press 2021)

  • Podcast #152, published 2021-10-1.

• Gidi Ifergan on The Psychology of the Yogas (Equinox Publishing 2021)

  • Podcast #151, published 2021-9-30.

• Kusumita P. Pedersen on The Philosophy of Sri Chinmoy: Love and Transformation (Lexington Books 2021)

  • Podcast #150, published 2021-9-22.

• Mark Van Buren on Meditation and Mindfulness Training (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #149, published 2021-9-22.

• Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha on Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments (Oxford University Press2021)

  • Podcast #148, published 2021-9-16.

• A Conversation with Don Davis Online Dharmaśāstra Library (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #147, published 2021-9-9.

• James D. Reich on To Savor the Meaning: The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir (Oxford University Press 2021)

  • Podcast #146, published 2021-9-9.

• Nicole Karapanagiotis on Branding Bhakti: Krishna Consciousness and the Makeover of a Movement (Indiana University Press 2021)

  • Podcast #145, published 2021-9-9.

• A Conversation with Dominik Haas: Open Access Publishing (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #144, published 2021-8-26.

• Yigal Bronner and Lawrence J. McCrea on First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth Century India (Indiana University Press 2021)

  • Podcast #143, published 2021-8-26.

• Pamela Ayo Yetunde on Being Black and Buddhist (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #142, published 2021-8-25.

• Kristin Hanssen on Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living With Bengali Bauls (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #141, published 2021-8-19.

• Oneika Mays on Wisdom and Social Activism (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #140, published 2021-8-18.

• A Conversation with Amir Hussain: Religious Studies Today (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #139, published 2021-8-16.

• Emilia Bachrach on In the Service of Krishna: Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript (Mapin Publishing 2020)

  • Podcast #138, published 2021-8-12.

• A Conversation with Jacob Kyle: Embodied Philosophy (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #137, published 2021-8-11.

• Vijaya Nagarajan on Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India--an Exploration of the Kolam (Oxford University Press 2018)

  • Podcast #136, published 2021-8-5.

• McComas Taylor on The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes (Australian National University 2021)

  • Podcast #135, published 2021-7-28.

• A Conversation with Greg Bailey: Sanskrit Scholar and Novelist (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #134, published 2021-7-22.

• Darren Main on Inner Tranquility (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #133, published 2021-7-22.

• Shankar Nair on Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia (University of California Press 2020)

  • Podcast #132, published 2021-7-15.

• Anya P. Foxen and Christa Kuberry on Is this Yoga? Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice (Routledge 2021)

  • Podcast #131, published 2021-7-15.

• Megan Eaton Robb on Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India (Oxford University Press 2020)

  • Podcast #130, published 2021-7-9.

• Elder Little Brown Bear: Healing Wisdom from a Métis Elder (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #129, published 2021-7-7.

• Zoë Slatoff on Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga A New Approach to Sanskrit, Integrating Traditional and Academic Methods and Based on Classic Yoga Texts, for University Courses, Yoga Programs, and Self Study (North Point Press 2015)

  • Podcast #128, published 2021-7-1.

• Ben Williams on Contemplative Education (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #127, published 2021-6-30.

• Peter Christiaan Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi on The Skandapurāṇa Project: The Varáha Cycle and the Andhaka Cycle Continued. Vol. V. Adhyáyas 96 - 112 (Brill 2021)

  • Podcast #126, published 2021-6-24.

• Chris Chapple on Nonviolence as Pandemic Wisdom (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #125, published 2021-6-23.

• Lavanya Vemsani on Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata: Hindu Women in History, Text, and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan 2021)

  • Podcast #124, published 2021-6-21.

• Michael Nichols on Malleable Mara: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil (SUNY Press 2020)

  • Podcast #123, published 2021-6-17.

• Brian Collins on Indian Mythology (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #122, published 2021-6-16.

• Chitgopekar Nilima on The Reluctant Family Man: Shiva in Everyday Life (Penguin Enterprise 2019)

  • Podcast #121, published 2021-6-10.

• Frank Clooney on “The Scholar-Practitioner” (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #120, published 2021-6-9.

• Jon Keune on Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India (Oxford University Press 2021)

  • Podcast #119, published 2021-6-3.

• Ruth Roth on the Wisdom of the Catholic Church (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #118, published 2021-6-2.

• Karen G. Ruffle on Everyday Shi'ism in South Asia (John Wiley & Sons 2021)

  • Podcast #117, published 2021-5-26.

• Arti Dhand on The Mahābhārata (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #116, published 2021-5-26.

• Michael D. Nichols on Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (McFarland 2021)

  • Podcast #115, published 2021-5-21.

• Jacqueline Fewkes and Megan Adamson Sijapati on Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #114, published 2021-5-19.

• Ian Whicher on Yoga Philosophy (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #113, published 2021-5-19.

• Bhaktimarga Swami on Devotion (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #112, published 2021-5-12.

• Raj Balkaran on Pandemic Perspectives: Working Remotely (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #111, published 2021-5-10

  • Interview for Academic Life podcast (New Books Network, 2021)

• Brian Carwana on World Religions (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #110, published 2021-5-5.

• Brenda Beck on Land of the Golden River: The Medieval Tamil Folk Epic of Poṉṉivaḷa Nāḍu (Friesen Press 2021)

  • Podcast #109, published 2021-4-30.

• A Discussion with Kate Hartmann: Teaching Buddhist Studies Online (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #108, published 2021-4-30.

• Gil Ben-Herut and Jon Keune on Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers (Routledge 2019)

  • Podcast #107, published 2021-4-28.

• Bhante Saranapala on Kindness (New Books Network, 2021)

  • Podcast #106, published 2021-4-28.

• Birinder Pal Singh on Sikhs in the Deccan and North-East India (Taylor & Francis 2018)

  • Podcast #105, published 2021-4-23.

• Thomas Robinson and Hillary Rodrigues on World Religions Reader: Understanding Our Religious World (Robinest 2020)

  • Podcast #104, published 2021-4-23.

• Daniel Heifetz on The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar (SUNY Press 2021)

  • Podcast #103, published 2021-4-22.

• Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai on Many Mahābhāratas (SUNY Press 2021)

  • Podcast #102, published 2021-4-20.

• Ayesha A. Irani on The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam (Oxford University Press 2021)

  • Podcast #101, published 2021-4-14.

• 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.

• Michale P. Brunner on Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947 (Palgrave 2020)

  • Podcast #92, published 2021-2-24.

• 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.

• Raj Balkaran on The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth: Power, Preservation and Mirrored Māhātmyas in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa (Routledge 2020)

  • Podcast #50, published 2020-6-25.

• 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.

• Elizabeth A. Cecil on Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India (Brill 2020)

  • Podcast #34, published 2020-4-22.

• 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.

• Jeffery D. Long on Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, Scientific (MDPI Books 2019)

  • Podcast #6, published 2019-3-4.

• Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Peter Rodrigues on Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia (SUNY Press 2018)

  • Podcast #5, published 2019-2-13.

• Mani Rao on Living Mantra: Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today (Palgrave Macmillan 2019)

  • Podcast #4, published 2019-2-1.

• 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.