Introduction: Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions
Diana Dimitrova
1. The vaṃśa as Body: Seizure, Illness and Restriction of the Body in the Harivaṃśa
Chris Austin
2. Tinged with Pain and Promise: Images of Bodies in the Poetry of Appar
Anne E. Monius
3. Allegorical representations of the body in the Vijñānagīta by Keśavdās
Stefania Cavalieri
4. Devotional Bodies and Embodied Devotion: Yoga, Bhakti and Pilgrimage in the Radhasoami Tradition
Diana Dimitrova
5. Bodies in Cracking India
Nandi Bhatia
6. Cultivating a female body: Appropriation of female rituality (saṃskāra) within the hijra community
Mathieu Boisvert
7. When Humans Pose as Hindu Gods
Gita Pai
Biography
Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Traditions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Hinduism and Hindi Theatre; Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama and Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre. She is also the editor of Religion, Literature and Film in South Asia and Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature (with Thomas de Bruijn). Her publications include the edited volumes, The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness and Divinizing in South Asian Traditions (with Tatiana Oranskaia), also published by Routledge. She is the series editor of the Routledge Series on South Asian Culture.
