vata as Canonical Commentary(1996), Myth and Method(with Wendy Doniger) (1996),
and Jewels of Authority: Women and Text in the Hindu Tradition(2002). Her translation
of the Bhagavad Gita is forthcoming from the Penguin Press Classics Series. She was a
Fulbright scholar in India in 2004, completing research for her forthcoming book,
Grandmother Language: Women and Sanskrit in Maharashtra and Beyond.
chakravarthi ram-prasadstudied history, politics, and sociology in India before
completing a doctorate in philosophy at Oxford. He taught at the National University
of Singapore and was a research fellow at Trinity College, Oxford, and Clare Hall,
Cambridge. He is now senior lecturer in Indian religions at Lancaster University. His
publications include Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought(2001), Ad-
vaita Epistemology and Metaphysics(2002), Eastern Philosophy (2005), and The Conse-
quences of Knowledge (2005). He is currently completing a book on religion and politics
and continuing research on consciousness in the classical Indian traditions on a John
Templeton Foundation grant.
shrinivas tilakis an independent research scholar who holds a doctorate in the his-
tory of religions from McGill University. He is author ofReligion and Aging in the In-
dian Tradition(1989), The Myth of Sarvodaya: A Study of Vinoba’s Concept (1984), and
Understanding Karma in Light of Paul Ricoeur’s Anthropology and Hermeneutics (2006).
His research interests include cultural gerontology, hermeneutics, and Indology.