7 Citations
Gambling with Justice: A Juridical Approach to the Game of Dice in the Dyūtaparvan of the Mahābhārata
- Law
- 2021
This article draws on Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmaśāstra) and on Nīlakaṇṭhacaturdhara’s (seventeenth century) Bhāratabhāvadīpa to uncover the motivations behind various characters’…
Against Vaiṣṇava Deviance: Brāhmaṇical and Bhadralok Alliance in Bengal
- History
- 2018
This article sets out to problematise the notion that late nineteenth and early twentieth century Vaiṣṇava anti-sahajiyā polemics can be taken as a definitive index of colonial wrought rupture within…
The King Must Protect the Difference: The Juridical Foundations of Tantric Knowledge
- History
- 2018
Drawing upon inscriptional, art historical, as well as largely unstudied and unpublished textual evidence, this paper examines the conceptualization of religious diversity in the Medieval Deccan…
Hinduism and Law
- Law, History
- 2015
Beginning with a review of the interaction between religion and law in premodern periods, this essay presents in more detail the complex developments since the seventeenth century up to the present…
Negotiating ritual duty in degenerate times: The goddess Mathamma and the legal secular in rural South India
- Law
- 2015
In India, religious practices deemed incompatible with liberal governance are often legally curtailed in the name of “morality,” “health,” or “public order.” These “secular” laws are historically…
Early Medieval Law in India and Europe: A Plea for Comparisons
- History, Law
- 2013
The records of the customary law that seems to have been practised in early medieval India differ from those that survive from Western Europe, but the law that was followed in the two subcontinents…
On the Definition of a Hindu World and Its Portrayal: A Review Article
- Art
- 2007
Books purporting to be introductions to Hinduism are legion, and new ones are seemingly being published each year, though certainly not in the same quantity as equivalent works on Buddhism, a…