About the Book: Cross Cutting South Asian Studies
This volume, Crosscutting South Asian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach
focuses on two themes that are central to Indological studies: religious
practices and heterodox sovereignty. The first part of this volume "The Indian
Ocean of Religious Practices: Past and Present" deals with different issues
related to religious practices and institutions in South Asia. These
contributions share a similar theoretical perspective on religion: they all
highlight, in various ways and through different disciplinary approaches, how,
in order to fully understand religious practices and their inherent dynamics, it
is essential to consider the power relations that continually imbue and shape
them. The second