New Head of Academic Advisory Council

The Muktabodha Indological Research Institute is delighted to announce Dr. Mark McLaughlin as the new Chair of its Academic Advisory Council. Dr. McLaughlin is a Senior Lecturer of South Asian Religions at William & Mary, where he teaches courses on Hinduism, yoga, and sacred space in India. Before joining William & Mary, Dr. McLaughlin taught at Denison University as a …

MIRI at SARIT Conference: Facing the Challenges of Digitization

A workshop on “The Future of Digital Texts in South Asian Studies” was held in Vienna on May 22-24, 2017. It was convened by SARIT (Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts), an independent digital library for research into Indology. The purpose of the workshop was to present SARIT’s conclusions to a four-year project dedicated to developing and enriching a collection …