Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- After the Mahābhārata: On the Portrayal of Vyāsa in the Skandapurāṇa -- The “Best Abode of Virtue”: Sattra Represented on a Gupta-Period Frieze from Gaṛhwa,̄ Uttar Pradesh -- The Skandapurāṇa and Bāṇa’s Harṣacarita -- Part II: Political Landscapes and Regional Identity -- Describing the Own Other: Chinese Buddhist Travelogues Between Literary Tropes and Educational Narratives -- Imperial Languages and Public Writings in Tamil South India: A Bird’s-Eye View in the Very Longue Durée -- Landscapes, Linkages, and Luminescence: First-Millennium CE Environmental and Social Change in Mainland Southeast Asia -- Sri Ksetra, 3rd Century BCE to 6th Century CE: Indianization, Synergies, Creation -- Part III: Religion, Ritual, and Empowerment -- The Meaning of the Word ārya in Two Gupta-Period Inscriptions -- Four Syllables for Slaying and Repelling: A Tibetan Vajrabhairava Practice from Recently Recovered Manuscripts of the “Lost” Book of Rwa (Rwa pod) -- Love, Unknowing, and Female Filth: The Buddhist Discourse of Birth as a Vector of Social Change for Monastic Women in Premodern South Asia -- A Natural Wonder: From Liṅga Mountain to Prosperous Lord at Vat Phu -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Dynamics of conflict and peace in contemporary South Asia -- Part I: Democracy, state and religion -- Chapter 1: Democracy and vigilantism: The spread of Gau Rakshaks in India -- Chapter 2: Creating majoritarian democracy: Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2017 Legislative Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh -- Chapter 3: Practicing the right to indifference: Secularism, toleration, and Islamophobia in Indian and American National Subjectivities -- Chapter 4: State and violence in Burma/Myanmar: The Rohingya crisis and its implication for South and South-East Asia -- Part II: Democratization and social movements -- Chapter 5: Manifestation of Dalit rights, justice and Dalit-ness in the post-Mandal era -- Chapter 6: Homogenization of social movement dynamics under a "clever" Nepali state, 2007-2012 -- Chapter 7: Abul Sattar Edhi: The modern incarnation of a pacifist Sufi -- Chapter 8: Movements of flats and citizens: Notes on spatial politics in Mumbai -- Part III: How does a conflict end? …”