Transgressing Categories: Autonomy, Agency and Authority in Hindu Traditions

Organizers: Amy-Ruth Holt (Independent Scholar) and Kalpesh Bhatt (University of Mary Washington)

Chair: Richard Davis (Bard College) Discussant: Raj Balkaran

Amanda Lucia (University of California-Riverside) Anti-liberatory Transgressions: Reinscribing Guru Authority through Transgression

Shandip Saha (Athabasca University) The Darbār and the Runaway Mahārāja: Religious and Political Controversy in Nineteenth Century Western India

Amy-Ruth Holt (Independent Scholar) Extending Mīnāṭci's Power: The Tiruviḷaiyādaḷ Imagery of Married-Female Saints

Kalpesh Bhatt (University of Mary Washington) Self-Understanding as Liberation: Reimagining Autonomy through Swaminarayan Hindu Categories