Issues

This is a collection of five articles that address religious controversies in South India, from roughly the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries.

This is the second issue of NESAR, and the first that is not a special issue. This issue has two articles: Archana Venkatesan’s thoughtful experiments with translating the religious poetry recited in festivals in Tamil Nadu and interpreted by a long tradition of scholars, and Yigal Bronner’s recovery of a Sanskrit poem, a direct response to Kālidāsa’s masterpiece, by the renegade poetician Udbhaṭa.