This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by re

This book introduces the term "otherism" and looks at the discourse of otherism and the issue of otherness in South Asian religion, literature and film. It exam

The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of

This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions, human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in relig

This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the