Political Hinduism
The Religious Imagination in Public Spheres
Edited by Dr. Vinay Lal
Author Information
Vinay Lal has been Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Anegeles since 1993, and Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program in India. His previous books include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy, The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (OUP 2003), Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture, Introducing Hinduism, and The Other Indians: A Political and Cultural History of South Asians in America. He has also co-edited (with Ashis Nandy) Fingerprinting Popular Culture: The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema (OUP 2006).
Contributors:
Madhav M. Deshpande, Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Roby Rajan, Professor, School of Business, University of Wisconsin
J. Reghu, Assistant Editor, State Institute of Encyclopedic Publications, India
Julius J. Lipner, Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion, University of Cambridge
Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Professor of Religion, Syracuse University
Jyotirmaya Sharma, Professor of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, India
Ajay Skaria, Associate Professor of History and Global Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Paula Richman, William H. Danforth Professor of South Asian Religions, Oberlin College
Ronald Inden, Professor Emeritus of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
