Books in the Routledge Hindu Studies Series series

The "Mahabharata" is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. This book brings together the most respected scholars in the field of "Mahabharata "studies, and focuses on gender constructions. It analyzes the text in terms of the poetic and philosophical possibilities thrown up by the semiotics of gendering.

Aims to fills a gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, making an important contribution to Indian and Hindu thinking on religion.

Focuses on the analysis of pure consciousness as found in Advaita Vedanta, one of the main schools of Indian philosophy. This book explores the nature of reality and pure consciousness, and analyzes ignorance as propounded in Advaita. It also contrasts the Yogacara and Advaita understandings of consciousness.

Presents an analysis to the doctrine of desire less action in Indian philosophy. This book surveys the contemporary literature on desire less action. It is suitable for scholars of Indian philosophy, religion, the Bhagavadgita and Hinduism.

There is a growing scholarly interest in Hindu religion. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship. This book extends the discussion on Indian images and their worship, bringing historical and comparative dimensions and considering Krishna worship in the context of modernity, both in India and the West.

The book provides an introduction to the history and the development of Indian epistemology, a synopsis of Kumarila's work and an analysis of its argument.

Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features which have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative in South Asia, this book presents the Mahabharata's complex orientation to the cosmic, social and textual past. It highlights the contexts of origin and transmission.