Select Contents of Oriental Journals

Summary

The section “Select Contents of Oriental Journals” provides readers with a digest of recent articles from a range of scholarly periodicals. It summarises research topics across history, religion, literature and philology. For example, from the Journal of the Oriental Institute of Baroda, it notes essays on Hindu political thought discussing the divinity of kingsfile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-215-325.pdf#:~:text=Select%20Contents%20of%20Oriental%20Journals,ment%20of%20the%20paper, studies on the 1857–59 uprising in Biharfile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-215-325.pdf#:~:text=K.%20K.%20DuTTA.,authority%20was%20widespread%20in%20Bihar, and analyses of judicial administration under the East India Companyfile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-215-325.pdf#:~:text=BANKEY%20Binart%20Misra,%E0%AB%AC%E0%AB%A6%20the. Other entries include translations of hymns to Indra, discussions of dramaturgy in Bhāsa’s plays and examinations of the Upapurāṇa Bhaviṣyottarafile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-215-325.pdf#:~:text=Select%20Contents%20of%20Oriental%20Journals,Buddhist%20Council%2C%20a%20later%20institution. The digest also lists articles on Yakṣa worship in Jain literature, the legal position of daughters in Hindu society, and comparative studies of Rudra in Vedic textsfile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-215-325.pdf#:~:text=%E0%AA%88,in%20the%20%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%20%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A6%20Society. It highlights contributions to Buddhist bibliography, surveys of textile terminology in Bāṇa’s Harṣacarita and notes on metrics. Each item briefly describes the focus and scope of the paper, enabling readers to identify areas of interest. By providing such summaries, the Indian Historical Quarterly helps scholars keep abreast of developments in allied disciplines and fosters interdisciplinary engagement.