Knowledge Traditions

Institutionalizing Faith: The Dadu and Nath Panth

Kartikay Khetarpal

Knowledge Traditions Institutions

Rohan Chauhan

The Hindi Historical Novel in Colonial North India: Rewr…

Diwali: The Various Shades of the Festival of Lights

Silpisikha Baruah

Videos

The Experience of Bhakti

Knowledge Traditions Institutions

The Nath Yogis

Oral History: Mahant Hanunman Nath on Gorakhnath and the Jwalamukhi Shakti Peeth

Knowledge Traditions Histories People

The Dadu Panth

Image Galleries

Embodying the Formless: Spiritual Practice in the Nath Sampraday

Sriram Sabhapathy, curated and captioned by Kartikay Khetarpal

Siddharth Haobijam

The Amaibis of Manipur: Gender-fluid Priestesses of the Sanamahi Religion

Udit Kulshreshtra

The Art of Aromas: Ittar Industry of Kannauj

Annie Rachel Royson

In Search of the Kristapurana: An Image Gallery

Articles

Anjana Premchand

The Beypore Uru Prevails

Why Naturopathy and Yoga are Relevant in the times of Covid-19

K. Sathya Lakshmi

Should Hindus be vegetarian? When Tagore confronted the orthodoxy on ‘Hindu food’

Amiya P. Sen

The Enlightenment of Guru Nanak, and a Glimpse into His Global Udasis

Harminder K.

Knowledge Traditions Histories People

Rohan Chauhan

Hindi Hitaishis: The Architects of the Early Historical Novel in Hindi

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel

Rohan Chauhan

Diwali as a Mercantile Festival

Silpisikha Baruah

The Evolving Storyline of Rajasthan’s Kaavad

Ajeya Vajpayee

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Performing Arts

Sritama Halder

One Story that is Many: Rama Katha in the Traditional Visual Cultures of India

Guru Padmasambhava: His Miraculous Life Story and the Meaning of His Sadhana

Dr Wangchuck Dorjee Negi

Mandakini ki Awaaz and its Influence on Garhwali Folk Music

Shweta Radhakrishnan

Art N Soul: The Complex World of Himalayan Buddhism

B.N. Goswamy

Did You Know, Ramzan Fasting was a Pre-Islamic Practice?

Shruti Chakraborty

Dipping into Pune’s Amruttulya Tea-drinking Culture

Padmapriya Janakiraman and Sayali Pendse

From Dhyan to Chan to Zen: An Incredible Spiritual Journey

Shyam Saran

Ganesha's Many Names and their Meanings

Bhavana Pankaj

Five Museums for the Wildlife Enthusiast

Simran Agarwal

Knowledge Traditions Built Spaces Natural Environment

Simran Agarwal and Shruti Chakraborty

Abduction to Elopement: Uncommon Tribal Courtship and Marriage Customs in India

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals

B.N. Goswamy

Art N Soul: The Silk Route to Burma via India

Who was Mandodari? Not Just Ravana’s Wife

Bhavana Pankaj

Pandun ka Kada: A Fascinating Tradition in Fraught Times

Garima Raghuvanshy

Rath Yatra, Gotipua and Salabega Connection

Deeti Ray

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Practices and Rituals

Chandrica Barua

Tai Khamyangs of Assam: History and Folk Traditions

Thangaliya Weaving: Dots and Patterns from the Dangasiyas of Kutch

Shrey Maurya

Guru Padmasambhava: Symbolism and Visual Culture

Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals People

Manan Kapoor

Mandi’s Shivaratri Mela is a Fascinating Example of India’s Multi-deity Culture

The Pātañjalayogaśāstra alias the Yogasūtra and the Yogabhāṣya

Philipp A. Maas

Art N Soul: Different Snakes, Different Ladders

B.N. Goswamy

Krishna as the Divine Child on a Banyan Leaf: Vatapatrasayi

Chandramolle Modgil

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Religious Life in Modern Bengal

Amiya P. Sen

Where Ravana is Vishnu’s True Bhakta

Bhavana Pankaj

Weaver Communities of India

Navina Lamba

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu: A Relook at the Saint and Reformer

Amiya P. Sen

Gyan Chaupar: The Game that Became Snakes and Ladders in British India

Mohit Srivastava

Learning to be a Bhakat: The Disciples of the Sattras

Abismrita Chakravarty

Knowledge Traditions Practices and Rituals Institutions

Neten Chockling Rinpoche

Padmasambhava: Sage of The Himalayas

Verses for a Home Foregone: Four Poets on Exile and Being Refugees

Manan Kapoor

Yoga: It Wasn’t Always About Asanas and Fitness

Shruti Chakraborty

बहु-आयामी नंदीकुण्ड नन्दा जात

जीत सिंह (Jeet Singh)

Churning of the Ocean: The Myth and its Yogic Interpretations

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

संकट में हैं लाल पड़िया आदिवासी ‘पिंधना’

सरोज केरकेट्टा (Saroj Kerketta)

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts People

Amiya P. Sen

Recovering Raja Rammohun Roy

Understanding Buddhism Through the Therigatha

Aparna Sanyal

Five Indian Museums Your Kids Will Love

Shruti Chakraborty

Knowledge Traditions Institutions Built Spaces

V.S. Rama Devi and S.K. Mendiratta

How India Votes: History of Elections During the British Rule

How India Votes: History of Elections in Ancient India

V.S. Rama Devi and S.K. Mendiratta

Yoga: A Historical Overview

Karen O’Brien-Kop

Visualising the City as Desire, Power, Destruction

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Kumbh Mela: Do Our Vedic Texts Mention this Unique Pilgrimage?

Prof. D.P. Dubey

बस्तर का ऐतिहासिक दशहरा पर्व: बस्तर दशहरा

रूद्र नारायण पाणिग्रही

Hanuman: Myths, Legends and Lore

Shruti Chakraborty

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Jataka Tales: Karma, Life Lessons and Stories of the Afterlife

Ruth Westoby

Yogic Body

Dasamahavidyas: Imagining a Feminine Universe

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Vikram and Vetal: How Many Know of the Stories within a Story?

The Fable of the Courtesan, the Ascetic and the King

Lee Siegel

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Aamer Hussein

The Presence of a Language: Journeys in Urdu Literature

Malavika Sarukkai

Rasa - Essence

Kumar Shahani and Udayan Vajpeyi

The Threshold

Translating the Sacred: Andal

Priya Sarukkai Chabria

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Histories

H.S. Shivaprakash

Transformations of Meanings and Rasa in Inter-Semiotic Translations Across Genres

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Literature and Languages

Philip Lutgendorf

Is there an Indian Way of Filmmaking?

Alternative Poetry of the Northeast

Robin Ngangom

Chhath Puja: Origin of the Festival, and the Story of Devasena

Shruti Chakraborty

Suzanne Newcombe

Yoga and Āyurveda

Linguistic Latitudes and Cultural Crosscurrents in South Asian Literatures

Namita Gokhale and Dr Malashri Lal

Diwali: Origins and the Evolution of the Festival of Lights

Aastha Soni

Elephant Training in India

Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan

Different Methods of Elephant Capture in India

Dr N. Kalaivanan and Dr P.S. Easa

Gajachikitsa: The Treatment of Elephants in Ancient and Modern Medicine

Dr Syam K. Venugopal and Dr V. Sunil Kumar

घढ़वा धातु ढलाई पद्यति/ Gadhwa metal casting : process and technique

मुश्ताक खान

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts People

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Creation Myths: How did the World, and its Many Stories, Begin?

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals Histories

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Harmony with A.R. Rahman: Embodying India’s Musical Heritage

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts People

हरिहर वैष्णव

जगार: बस्तर के अलिखित लोक महाकाव्य-1, The Oral Epic of Jagar in Bastar-1

Traditional Tribal Textiles of Bastar

Dr. Sudha Dhingra,

बस्तर के पारम्परिक आहार/ Natural food produce of Bastar

मुश्ताक खान

गुरुमांय: वाचिक परम्परा की संवाहिकाएं, Gurumai: Bearers of Oral Traditions

मुश्ताक खान

Kamadhenu: The Pleasures of Giving

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories

अशोक तिवारी

पारंपरिक छत्तीसगढ़ी व्यंजन, Traditional Chhattisgarhi Cuisine

Ganesh Chaturthi and Carnatic Music

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Practices and Rituals

मुश्ताक खान

बस्तर के अनुष्ठानिक दिये, Ritual Lamps of Bastar

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals People

मुश्ताक खान

बस्तर के पारंपरिक लोह-शिल्प, Traditional Iron Ware of Bastar

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals Histories

मुश्ताक खान

बस्तर के लोहार एवं उनका सामाजिक महत्त्व, Rites of passage : the social role of Lohars in Bastar

छत्तीसगढ़ में तालाबों का सांस्कृतिक औचित्य/ Cultural Significance of Lakes in Chhattisgarh

राहुल कुमार सिंह

Knowledge Traditions Practices and Rituals Natural Environment

Manidipa Singha

The Journey of Qawwali through the Indian Subcontinent

Mark Singleton

Modern Yoga

छत्तीसगढ़ी सतनामी रहस, The 'Rahas' of the Satnamis in Chhattisgarh

डॉ. अनिल कुमार भतपहरी

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Practices and Rituals Histories

डॉ. अनिेल कुमार भतपहरी

सतनामी पंथी नृत्य

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Practices and Rituals Histories

Sunil Kumar

Political Elites and Sufis: 13th and 14th Century Delhi Sultanate

Knowledge Traditions People Natural Environment

Dr Ilse Köhler-Rollefson

Camel Cultures of India

Antony Joseph Nangelimalil

A New Idiom of Sacred Art for St. Thomas Christians

Knowledge Traditions Built Spaces

Graham Burns

Meditation

Computational Linguistics & Machine Translation Tools in India

Pranjal Koranne

Daniel Simpson

Prāṇāyāma

Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics

Pranjal Koranne

Computational Linguistics for Sanskrit and Modern Indian Languages

Pranjal Koranne

Weaving Kerang: A Personal Narrative

Samari Sisa

Cultural Narratives of the Gadaba Adivasis of Odisha

Dhanu Muduli

Knowledge Traditions Built Spaces

Aparna Nambiar

Yoginis and Bhairavas

Prateeq Kumar

Women in Tantra: The Yoginis of Hirapur

Knowledge Traditions Built Spaces

डॉ सुधा उपाध्याय

कबीर का पितृसत्तात्मक संसार

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Literature and Languages

Purushottam Agrawal

Kabir: Personal and Political

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals

Sunil Kumar

लोकगाथा राजा सलहेस

दलितों के प्रतिरोध की अभिव्यक्ति हैं सलहेस

हसन इमाम

Process of Making Mohrakashi by Gurpreet Singh Mankoo

Dr Maneet Kaur

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals

Malini Saigal

Ideas of Vegetation in the Art and Culture of the Thar

Story of Raja Bharthari (with Hindi Translation)

Dr. Madan Meena

Feeling the Intangible - Revisiting Heritage

Menka Singh

Flora and Fauna in the Thar Desert

Malini Saigal

Knowledge Traditions Practices and Rituals Natural Environment

Malini Saigal

The Plants of the Thar Desert

Knowledge Traditions Practices and Rituals Natural Environment

Yashaswini Chandra

Photo Essay on Arna Jharna: The Desert Museum

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Performing Arts Practices and Rituals Institutions Built Spaces Natural Environment

Sandeep Joshi

Kalamkari of Gujarat: Mata ni Pachhedi

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals Histories People

Raziuddin Aquil

मध्यकालीन भारत की भक्ति परम्पराओं के चंद अहम पहलु

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals Histories

Kapila Vatsyayan

Culture and Science

Dr Sudha Gopalakrishnan

Abhinavagupta

Ajrak: The Sacred Cloth of Sindh

Noorjehan Bilgrami

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Histories People

Yousuf Saeed

Samples of Sufi Literature and Lyrics

Select Bibliography: Sufi Literature in South Asia

Yousuf Saeed

Knowledge Traditions Practices and Rituals Histories Institutions People

Select Internet Links

Timeline South Asian Sufis

Yousuf Saeed

Sufis, Sants and Songs of the Deccan

Gautam Pemmaraju

Tolerance in the Sufi Tradition

Jürgen Wasim Frembgen

Sahapedia Frames

The Amaibis of Manipur: Gender-fluid Priestesses of the Sanamahi Religion

Siddharth Haobijam

Udit Kulshreshtra

The Art of Aromas: Ittar Industry of Kannauj

Indrajit Khambe

Taleems of Kolhapur: A Legacy in Wrestling

Moushumee Jha

Ramlila: Life Backstage

Library Artifacts