Editors
Timothy Lubinis Professor in the Department of Religion, and Lecturer in Law and Religion in the School of Law at Washington and Lee University.
His publications concern classical Hindu ritual and doctrine, and their relation to legal precepts and practices in India.
He is at work on a volume entitled Authority, Law, and the Polity in Premodern India.
Donald R. Davis, Jr.,is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures in Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
His previous publications include The Spirit of Hindu Law (2010) and The Boundaries of Hindu Law: Tradition, Custom and Politics in Medieval Kerala (2004).
Jayanth K. Krishnanis Professor of Law and the Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington, Maurer School of Law.
Krishnan’s academic interests focus on the legal profession and law-and-globalization, with a special emphasis on how these
areas intersect in India. His publications on these subjects have appeared in reputed law reviews and peer-reviewed journals.
Contributors
Whitney Coxis Lecturer in Sanskrit at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
His research interests include Sanskrit and Tamil literature and literary theory, and the history of
aivism. He is at present
working on a reinterpretation of the accession of the Cola emperor Kulottu
ga I.
Richard H. Davisis Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Bard College.
His most recent books are
A Priest’s Guide for the Great Festival: Aghorasiva’s Mahotsavavidhi (2009) and
Global India circa 100 CE: South Asia in Early World History (2010).
Laura Dudley Jenkinsis Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati.
Previous publications include her book on affirmative action, Identity and Identification in India: Defining the Disadvantaged (2003, 2009), as well as articles on religious freedom and conversion, competing minorities’ claims for affirmative action,
colonial and contemporary government anthropology, the role of social science in anti-discrimination law, and reserved legislative
seats for women.
Aditya Malikis Associate Professor/Reader in Indian Religions in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury,
New Zealand.
His publications on pilgrimage, oral narratives, and ritual performance in Rajasthan and Uttarakhand include Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath: An Analysis and Translation of the Rajasthani Oral Narrative of Devnarayan (2005).
Lawrence McCreais Assistant Professor of Sanskrit Studies at Cornell University.
His research focuses mainly on traditional Indian poetics, hermeneutics, and language theory. He is the author of
The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir (2008) and (with Parimal Patil) of
Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jñ
na
r
mitra’s Monograph on Exclusion (2010).
Axel Michaelsis Professor of Classical Indology in the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University.
His publications include
Hinduism: Past and Present (2004),
The Price of Purity: The Religious Judge in 19th Century Nepal (2006), and
iva in Trouble: Rituals and Festivals at the Paupatintha Temple of Deopatan, Nepal (2008).
Smita Narulais Associate Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law. She is Faculty Director of the law school’s Center
for Human Rights and Global Justice and its International Human Rights Clinic.
Narula has published extensively on human rights issues in South Asia, with a special emphasis on caste-based discrimination
and the rise of Hindu nationalism.
Patrick Olivelleis Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
His focus in recent years has been the early textual development of the Dharma
stras. Besides the four early Dharmas
tras,
he has critically edited and translated the Dharma
stras
of Manu and Vi
u. He has also completed a new translation of Kau
ilya’s
Arthastra.
Rosane Rocheris Professor Emerita of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Many of her publications concern the intellectual exchange between India and the West in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. They include analytical articles and three biographies (the most recent in press) of British Indologists.
Rachel Sturmanis Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College.
Her work focuses on the history of law, political economy, and affective relations in colonial and postcolonial India. She
has recently completed a manuscript entitled “The Properties of Subjects: Economic Governance and the Family in Colonial India.”
Ananya Vajpeyiteaches South Asian history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
She was educated at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, at Oxford University, where she read as a Rhodes Scholar, and
at the University of Chicago. Her first book, Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India, is in press.
Rina Verma Williamsis Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, and of Studies in Women and Gender, at the
University of Virginia.
Her research interests focus on the politics of women and gender, religion, law, and nationalism in South Asia and comparative
contexts. She is the author of Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws (2006).
Robert Yelleis Assistant Professor in the History Department and in the Honors Program at the University of Memphis.
He earned a JD with Honors from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He received
a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on his second book, tentatively entitled Modernity and Disenchantment: Christianity and the Secularization of Colonial India.