What we Indologists owe to anthropologists by Axel Michaels

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Sheldon Pollock and Max Weber: Why Pollock is more Weberian than he thinks by Gellner, D

“…Sheldon Pollock is the leading North American Indologist and his magnum opus, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India, is a field-defining classic. …”

CHRONOLOGY AND ‘A NEW HISTORY OF DHARMAŚĀSTRA’: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CASE OF “RULES FOR WRITTEN CONTRACTS” by MEGH KALYANASUNDARAM

“…Sixth in a series of recent papers that have engaged with one or the other aspect of various chronological postulations found in books that Indologist Patrick Olivelle has either himself written or has edited, this paper presents a pointed critical engagement with some of the contestable views related to the chronology of “rules for written contracts” in Gregory Schopen’s essay A Buddhist Monastic Code as a Source for Indian Law, which is an essay included in the recent book Hindu Law: A New History of Dharmaśāstra published by Oxford University Press and edited by Olivelle and David R. …”
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Why Sri Aurobindo’s Hermeneutics Still Matters: Philology and the Transformative Possibilities of Scripture by Swami Medhananda

“…I then focus on the Īśā Upaniṣad as a test case, critically comparing the commentaries of the traditional Advaita Vedāntin Śaṅkara, the modern Indologist Paul Thieme, and Sri Aurobindo. I make the case that Sri Aurobindo’s interpretive approach to the Īśā Upaniṣad has significant advantages over the approaches of Śaṅkara and Thieme. …”
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Corpo e lamento funebre by Crafa, Alberico

“…Starting from the methodological frames provided by de Martino’s studies on the lament in ancient world, and the recent attention dedicated to the bodies, this article will analyse one of the most famous episode of kāvya literature as translated by nineteenth-century Italian Indologist Giuseppe Turrini: King Aja’s lament (vilāpa) upon his wife Indumatī, and particularly the stanza of Raghuvaṃa 8.43. …”
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Area Studies at the Modern University: Experience in Studying International Communication Strategies by O. A. Nesterova, O. L. Solodkova

“…In this paper, we show the importance of including the large corpus of scholarly, popular and media texts describing the experience of 20th-century Russian and Soviet Indologists in bachelor’s Asian studies programmes. …”
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From India to Australia and back again: An alternative genealogy of The elementary forms of religious life by Hausner, S

“…His extensive engagement with his nephew, Marcel Mauss, whose earlier work, Sacrifice, with Henri Hubert, was premised on an analysis of Vedic ritual, would have been one source for his study of religion writ large; Elementary Forms also takes up in detail the work of Max Müller, among other Indologists, whose work was well known and widely engaged with in the French and broader European intellectual context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …”

Evolution of the figure of the Brahmin in early Muslim writings by Dunkin Jalki

“…Ever since Wilhelm Halbfass’s Imagining India (1990), a growing but a small number of Indologists talk about the 11th century Al-Bīrūnī as one of “the greatest scholars ever” to speak about the Indian caste system. …”
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