Diana Dimitrova is Associate Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004) and Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama (2008) and is the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010).

"The book brings out yet another way of examining the notion of exclusion, marginalisation, reconfiguration of identities and subjectivities by foregrounding the process of “othersim” as an analytical lens." Maunaguru Sidharthan, National University of Singapore, Asian Journal of Social Science 43 (2015) 850–852'...it challenges existing theoretical frameworks to study the ‘other’ to comprehend various representations of ‘otherness’ and ‘othering’ in the South Asian context, highlighting the importance of context-based theoretical frameworks. By focusing our attention on the various representations of the ‘other’, the volume certainly elicits further dialogue and productive debate.'George Pati, Valparaiso University, Journal of Hindu Studies, Nov 2016, Vol 9, Issue 3

• Introduction: On Otherism and Othering 1. Part 1: In "Other" Lands: Diaspora, Religion, and Literature 1. The Religion of Coolitude 2. Religion and "Otherness" in a New World: The Radhasoami Tradition in Transnational Space Part 2: Creating Otherness: Language, Religion, and Literature 3. "Othering" through Language: The Construction of Two Languages and Communal Identities in British India 4. The Idea of a Nation: H.R. Bacchan’s Palimpsestian House of Wine 5. The Politics of "Otherness": The Hindi Plays of Urdu-Hindi Author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996) Part 3: Representing the "Other:" Otherness, Gender and Sexuality 6. Imagining the Powerful "Other:" Representations of Razia Sultan 7. Queer Bollywood: Same-Sex Sexuality, Gender Transgression and "Otherness" in Indian Popular Cinema of the 1990s 8. Towards an Inclusive, Fluid Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Commercial Indian Cinema(s)

Diana Dimitrova is Associate Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004) and Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama (2008) and is the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010).

"The book brings out yet another way of examining the notion of exclusion, marginalisation, reconfiguration of identities and subjectivities by foregrounding the process of “othersim” as an analytical lens." Maunaguru Sidharthan, National University of Singapore, Asian Journal of Social Science 43 (2015) 850–852'...it challenges existing theoretical frameworks to study the ‘other’ to comprehend various representations of ‘otherness’ and ‘othering’ in the South Asian context, highlighting the importance of context-based theoretical frameworks. By focusing our attention on the various representations of the ‘other’, the volume certainly elicits further dialogue and productive debate.'George Pati, Valparaiso University, Journal of Hindu Studies, Nov 2016, Vol 9, Issue 3

• Introduction: On Otherism and Othering 1. Part 1: In "Other" Lands: Diaspora, Religion, and Literature 1. The Religion of Coolitude 2. Religion and "Otherness" in a New World: The Radhasoami Tradition in Transnational Space Part 2: Creating Otherness: Language, Religion, and Literature 3. "Othering" through Language: The Construction of Two Languages and Communal Identities in British India 4. The Idea of a Nation: H.R. Bacchan’s Palimpsestian House of Wine 5. The Politics of "Otherness": The Hindi Plays of Urdu-Hindi Author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996) Part 3: Representing the "Other:" Otherness, Gender and Sexuality 6. Imagining the Powerful "Other:" Representations of Razia Sultan 7. Queer Bollywood: Same-Sex Sexuality, Gender Transgression and "Otherness" in Indian Popular Cinema of the 1990s 8. Towards an Inclusive, Fluid Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Commercial Indian Cinema(s)

Diana Dimitrova is Associate Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004) and Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama (2008) and is the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010).

"The book brings out yet another way of examining the notion of exclusion, marginalisation, reconfiguration of identities and subjectivities by foregrounding the process of “othersim” as an analytical lens." Maunaguru Sidharthan, National University of Singapore, Asian Journal of Social Science 43 (2015) 850–852'...it challenges existing theoretical frameworks to study the ‘other’ to comprehend various representations of ‘otherness’ and ‘othering’ in the South Asian context, highlighting the importance of context-based theoretical frameworks. By focusing our attention on the various representations of the ‘other’, the volume certainly elicits further dialogue and productive debate.'George Pati, Valparaiso University, Journal of Hindu Studies, Nov 2016, Vol 9, Issue 3

• Introduction: On Otherism and Othering 1. Part 1: In "Other" Lands: Diaspora, Religion, and Literature 1. The Religion of Coolitude 2. Religion and "Otherness" in a New World: The Radhasoami Tradition in Transnational Space Part 2: Creating Otherness: Language, Religion, and Literature 3. "Othering" through Language: The Construction of Two Languages and Communal Identities in British India 4. The Idea of a Nation: H.R. Bacchan’s Palimpsestian House of Wine 5. The Politics of "Otherness": The Hindi Plays of Urdu-Hindi Author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996) Part 3: Representing the "Other:" Otherness, Gender and Sexuality 6. Imagining the Powerful "Other:" Representations of Razia Sultan 7. Queer Bollywood: Same-Sex Sexuality, Gender Transgression and "Otherness" in Indian Popular Cinema of the 1990s 8. Towards an Inclusive, Fluid Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Commercial Indian Cinema(s)