Oxford Centre for
Hindu Studies Online
Oxford Centre for
Hindu Studies Online
We publish accessible, authoritative books on Hindu texts, traditions, and culture — written by the same scholars who teach our online courses. Each book began life as course materials, refined through years of teaching.
If a book captures your interest, the course it came from goes deeper.
Published in partnership with Mandala Publishing and distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Each title is a self-contained introduction — and each has a companion course taught by OCHS tutors.
A clear, complete guide to India’s most beloved sacred text, taking the reader chapter by chapter through the Gita’s teachings on duty, devotion, and liberation. Written out of Nick Sutton’s years of teaching the text to students worldwide.
A guide to India’s great epic: its narrative, its characters, and the moral and spiritual questions it wrestles with — war and duty, fate and free will, dharma in an imperfect world.
From the goddesses of the earliest texts to the lived experience of Hindu women today — an authoritative survey of women’s roles, voices, and agency across the Hindu world.
Two thousand years ago the goal of yoga was to sit like a stone; today it’s a global wellness industry. Daniel Simpson traces how that happened — the shifting aims, techniques, and influential teachers that made modern yoga — separating what’s ancient from what’s new.
A deeper journey through Patanjali — sutra by sutra, with commentary that opens the text for practitioners and students alike. The natural next step after The Yoga Sutras.
Hindu traditions have thought about nature, the body, and our place in the living world for millennia. A timely exploration of what they offer an age of ecological crisis.
One of the world’s leading scholars of Hinduism cuts through the misconceptions around Tantra, presenting its history, texts, and practices as a serious tradition of knowledge.
How two centuries of colonial encounter transformed Hindu thought and practice — reform movements, new institutions, and the making of modern Hinduism.
What a temple is, how it works, and how sacred architecture shapes — and is shaped by — the landscape, community, and ritual life around it.
Hindu Studies Press is the Centre's own imprint. Its flagship project is Dr Nick Sutton's translation of the Mokṣa-dharma — the vast philosophical heart of the Mahābhārata's Śānti-parvan, and one of the richest and least-read repositories of Hindu thought on liberation, ethics, and the nature of the self. The first accessible complete English translation in over a century, with Sanskrit text, facing translation, and explanatory notes.
The first volume of Nick Sutton’s complete translation of the Moksadharma — the vast philosophical heart of the Mahabharata’s Shanti-parvan, and one of the richest and least-read repositories of Hindu thought on liberation, ethics, and the nature of the self. Sanskrit text with facing translation and explanatory notes.
The second volume of Nick Sutton’s complete translation of the Moksadharma, continuing the Shanti-parvan’s teachings on liberation, ethics, and the nature of the self. Sanskrit text with facing translation and explanatory notes.
The third volume of Nick Sutton’s complete translation of the Moksadharma, concluding the Shanti-parvan’s teachings on liberation, ethics, and the nature of the self. Sanskrit text with facing translation and explanatory notes.
The fourth and final volume of Nick Sutton’s complete translation of the Moksadharma, concluding the Shanti-parvan’s teachings on liberation, ethics, and the nature of the self. Sanskrit text with facing translation and explanatory notes.
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