Surdas-and his remarkable lyrics refashioning the widely known narrative of the Hindu deity Krish...

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Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral py...

No Hindu god is closer to the soul of poetry than Krishna, and in North India no poet ever sang o...

India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity, but where does that sense of unity com...

The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays—many recognized as classics in the...

Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatical...

This is a book about a deeply beloved place-many call it the spiritual capital of India. Located ...

"e;John Stratton Hawley miraculously manages to braid the charged erotic and divine qualities...