New Books in Hindu Studies

This roundtable features four first monographs in Hindu studies with the aim of both exposing scholars in the field to new theoretical interventions, and of providing concrete ideas about how to incorporate those interventions into scholars’ own pedagogies. The authors are grouped in pairs and then respond to each other’s’ books. While all four monographs this year analyze aspects of Hindu traditions, the content and scope of each book is strikingly varied. Spanning diverse locations from Tamil Nadu to Kerala to Gujarat to North America, languages including Sanskrit, Manipravalam, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, and English, as well as both textual and ethnographic methodologies, these books provide a snapshot of the breadth of the field of Hindu studies.