This collection brings together a series of Patrick Olivelle’s research papers, published over a period of about ten years, whose unifying theme is the search for hidden historical context and develop
This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religiou
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and histo
This book contains eight contributions selected from presentations at a July 2006 conference in Halle/Saale, Germany. Editor Deema Kaneff (social anthropology, Birmingham; and Max Planck Institute for
