Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize “Remarkable and pathbreaking... A radical rethink of
colonial historiography and a compelling argument for the reassessment of the historical …

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re …

In August 2018, Hindutva extremists prevented me from delivering an academic lecture on
premodern Indian history in Hyderabad, in southern India. A few weeks before the …

In recent decades the relationship between tantric traditions of Buddhism and Śaivism has
been the subject of sustained scholarly enquiry. This article looks at a specific aspect of this …

From the first epigraphic references in the early sixth century, the Buddhist vihāras in Bengal
emerged as institutions with extensive landholdings, crucially depending on patronage from …

The incorporation of the goddess Tārā into the Hindu pantheon appears to have begun
around the turn of the first millennium, a couple of centuries after her first mentions in …

The reasons for the decline and disappearance of Buddhism from its Indian homeland have
long been the object of controversy. It is generally agreed that the assimilation of ideas and …

Journal of persianate studies 17 (2024) 1–11 in discovering and collecting manuscripts.
Catalogues of manuscripts from the early twentieth century still distinguished the category of …

The Buddhist landscape of ancient Magadha, modern south Bihar in eastern India,
constituted the religion's heartland because the Buddha had lived and taught here for a …

A careful analysis of the role of scale has scarcely found a place in South Asian art-historical
writings, which are primarily concerned with iconography, eliding questions of materiality or …