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Mahatma Gandhi was important to the Jewish world, and the Jewish world was important to Gandhi. For various Jewish groups, Gandhi served as a role model for universal justice, for opposing racial discriminat...

Recently, scholars writing on colonial Indian thinkers such as Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) have begun to move away from the “Neo-Hindu” approach, which tends to view their thought reductively as a Hindu na...

From the time of his first book, 1976’s The Ritual of Battle, to the time of his death in 2023, Alf Hiltebeitel produced an astonishing amount of groundbreaking scholarship on Sanskrit epic, South Indian pop...

This Special Issue will present an introduction and three essays on the South Asian festival of Indra. Practiced throughout royal capital cities of medieval India, the festival’s only full contemporary perfo...