Freda Matchettis Honorary Research Fellow, Religious Studies Department,
University of Lancaster, UK.
Vasudha Narayanan is Professor, Department of Religion, University of
Florida, USA and President of the American Academy of Religion.
Patrick Olivelleis Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions, University of
Texas at Austin, and Chair of the Department of Asian Studies, University of
Texas, USA.
C. Ram-Prasadteaches in the Department of Religious Studies, University of
Lancaster, UK.
Sumathi Ramaswamy is Associate Professor of History, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Ludo Rocheris Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania,
USA.
André Padouxis Directeur de recherche honoraire at the Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
Tracy Pintchmanis an associate professor at Loyola University of Chicago,
USA.
Declan Quigleyhas taught at the universities of Cambridge and St. Andrews,
and Queen’s University Belfast.
David Smithis Reader in Religious Studies in the Department of Religious
Studies, University of Lancaster, UK.
Frits Staalis Professor Emeritus, Departments of Philosophy and of South and
Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
Gauri Viswanathanis Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at Columbia University, USA.
Michael Witzelis Professor of Sanskrit, Department of Sanskrit and Indian
Studies, Harvard University, USA.
Dominik Wujastykis Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Wellcome Centre for
the History of Medicine, at University College London.
Michio Yanois Professor, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Kyoto Sangyo University,
Japan.
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