Dr Adam Bowles

Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions, Discipline Convenor

+61 7 336 56324

a.bowles1@uq.edu.au

Room E330, Forgan Smith Building (1)

Featured projects	Duration
Cosmology, the earth and politicised territory in the Mahābhārata Summer Research Scholarship	2015–2016
A Queensland Atlas of Religion: place, story, identity, action ARC Linkage Project	2022

Publications

Books (4)

Book Chapters (5)

Journal Articles (4)

Books

Copland, Ian, Mabbett, Ian, Roy, Asim, Brittlebank, Kate and Bowles, Adam A history of state and religion in India. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2012. doi:10.4324/9780203126943

Bowles, Adam Maha-bharata: Book Eight. Karna Volume Two: Cantos 55-96. Edited by Isabelle Onians, Somadeva Vasudeva, Richard Gombrich and Sheldon Pollock New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York University Press; JJC Foundation, 2008.

Bowles, Adam Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India: the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007.

Bowles, Adam Maha-bharata: Book Eight. Karna Volume One: Cantos 1-54. Edited by Isabelle Onians, Somadeva Vasudeva and Richard Gombrich New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York University Press; JJC Foundation, 2006.

Book Chapters

Bowles, Adam (2018). Dasyus in the Mahābhārata. In Simon Brodbeck, Adam Bowles and Alf Hiltebeitel (Ed.), The churning of the Epics and Purāṇas: proceedings of the Epics and Puranas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference (pp. ---) New Delhi, India: Dev Publishers & Distributors.

Bowles, Adam (2018). Law during emergencies: āpaddharma. In Patrick Olivelle and Donald R. Davis (Ed.), The Oxford history of Hinduism: Hindu law: a new history of Dharmaśāstra (pp. 245-256) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198702603.003.0020

Bowles, Adam (2017). The Mahābhārata and dharma. In Bailey, Greg (Ed.), Hinduism in India: The Early Period (pp. 60-84) Delhi: Sage.

Bowles, Adam (2016). Reflections on the upākhyānas in the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. In Adluri, Vishwa and Bagchee, Joydeep (Ed.), Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata (pp. 320-358) Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.

Bowles, Adam (2009). Framing bhisma's royal instructions: The Mahabharata and the problem of its ‘design’. In Petteri Koskikallio (Ed.), Parallels and comparisons : proceedings of the Fourth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas, September 2005 (pp. 121-135) Croatia: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Journal Articles

Bowles, Adam (2015) Dharma and ‘custom’: semantic persistence, semantic change and the anxieties of the principled few. Religions of South Asia, 9 2: 137-163. doi:10.1558/rosa.v9i2.31072

Bowles, Adam (2012) Historical traditions in Hindu texts. Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism, . doi:10.1093/OBO/9780195399318-0054

Bowles, Adam (2010) The failure of dharma. Seminar (New Delhi): the monthly symposium, 608: 26-31.

Bowles, Adam (2010) Governance and religious conflict in the eighteenth century: Religion and the civil discourse of separateness in the Maratha polity. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 33 1: 61-74. doi:10.1080/00856401003592479

Areas of research

International History

Religion and Culture