Mahavir Jayanti is also known as Mahaveer Janma Kalyanak, or the Birth Anniversary of Lord Mahavira - the founder of Jainism. Lord Mahavir was born in 599 BC in Kundagram, present-day Bihar ...

Research areas: Religious & social history of medieval Tamil Nadu; women in pre-colonial India; temple architecture & epigraphy; interactions among and sectarianism in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism ...

In his latest book, "Casting the Buddha: A Monumental History of Buddhism in India", veteran ... but also in Hinduism, Jainism, popular cults and other rudimentary and ascetic traditions.

Trace the Mughal conquest of India. Review the basic tenets of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam, Jainism, and Christianity. Understand Akbar's vision of a universal religion. Using new weaponry ...