Timothy Lubin

Publications

SSRN Publications

Books and Monograhs:

Hinduism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Timothy Lubin, Donald R. Davis Jr., and Jayanth Krishnan (Cambridge University Press, 2010). 

Articles in Journals and Edited Volumes (since 2001):

“Legal Diglossia: Modeling Discursive Practices in Premodern Indic Law,” in: Bilingual Discourse and Cross-Cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India, edited by Whitney Cox and Vincenzo Vergiani. Collection Indologie, 121. Paris & Pondicherry: Institut français de Pondichéry / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013, pp. 411–455. 

 “The Polity of the Philosopher-Bureaucrat: Brahmanical Virtue as a Qualification for Public Office,” in: World View and Theory in Indian Philosophy, edited by Piotr Balcerowicz. Warsaw Indological Studies, 5. Delhi: Manohar, 2012, pp. 299–325. 
LINK: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2206009

“Aśoka’s Disparagement of Domestic Ritual and Its Validation by the Brahmins,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 41, 2013, pp. 29–41. 

“Introduction” (with Donald R. Davis Jr., and Jayanth Krishnan), in: Hinduism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Timothy Lubin, Donald R. Davis Jr., and Jayanth Krishnan (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 1–14.

“Indic Conceptions of Authority,” in: Hinduism and Law: an Introduction, edited by Timothy Lubin, Donald R. Davis Jr., and Jayanth Krishnan (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 37–53.

“Towards a New Edition of the Baudhāyanagṛhyasūtra,” in: Vedic Investigations: Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, Vol. 1, edited by Asko Parpola, Petteri Koskikallio, and Stanley Insler (New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, forthcoming).

“The Householder Ascetic and the Uses of Self-Discipline,” in: Asceticism and Power in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Flügel and Gustaaf Houtman (Royal Asiatic Society Books series) (London: Routledge, forthcoming.)

“The Elusive Snātaka,” in: Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle, edited by Steven Lindquist (Florence: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2011), pp. 13–30.

“Brāhmaṇa as Commentary,” in: Forms and Uses of the Commentary in the Indian World, edited by François Grimal, Nalini Balbir, and Nicholas Dejenne (Pondicherry: Institut français de Pondichéry, 2010.

“Ritual Self-Discipline as a Response to the Human Condition: Toward a Semiotics of Ritual Indices,” in: Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual: I. Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practices in Asia, edited by Axel Michaels. (Science of Ritual Series) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010), pp. 271–282.

“The Criteria of Legitimacy in Hindu Nationalism,” 2008 Rudolph C. Barnes Sr. Symposium: Legitimacy, Economic Development and Change, convened by David Linnan (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina School of Law, 2008), published on-line in video format: http://www.lfip.org/barnes/2008/video/video_publish.htm.

 

"Punishment and Expiation: Overlapping Domains in Brahmanical Law," Indologica Taurinensia  33, 2007, pp. 93-122.

"The Nīlarudropaniṣad and the Paippalādasaṃhitā: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Upaniṣad and Nārāyaṇa's Dīpikā," in: The Atharvaveda and its Paippalāda Śākhā: Historical and Philological Papers on a Vedic Tradition, edited by Arlo Griffiths and Annette Schmiedchen (Geisteskultur Indiens. Texte und Studien 11 = Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis) (Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2007), pp. 81-139.

"The Transmission, Patronage, and Prestige of Brahmanical Piety from the Mauryas to the Guptas," in: Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia, edited by Federico Squarcini (Kykéion studi e testi. I, Scienze delle religioni 3) (Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2005), pp. 77-103.

Advisory editor and author of article "Hinduism: Late Medieval Period," in: Encyclopedia of Religion and War, edited by Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez (New York and London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 166-169.

"The Virtuosic Exegesis of the Brahmavādin and the Rabbi," Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 49(4), 2002, pp. 427-459.

"Science, Patriotism, and Mother Veda: Ritual Activism in Maharashtra," International Journal of Hindu Studies 5(3) (special issue: "Middle-class Religion"), December 2001, pp. 81-105.

"Vratá  Divine and Human in the Early Veda," Journal of the American Oriental Society 121(4), October-December 2001, pp. 565-579.

"Veda on Parade: Revivalist Ritual as Civic Spectacle," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 69(2), June 2001, pp. 377-408.

Book Reviews (Law-Related)

Review of P. V. Kane, Professor Kane's Contribution to Dharmaśāstra Literature (1998), and Suresh Chandra Banerji, A Companion to Dharmaśāstra (1998), in Indo-Iranian Journal, 43(4), 2000, pp. 406–411.