Dr Adam Bowles

Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions, Discipline Convenor

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

+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

Publications

Books (4)

Book Chapters (6)

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 (2019). The Gṛhastha in the Mahābhārata. In Patrick Olivelle (Ed.), Gṛhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture (pp. 173-203) New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.

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 (2018). The dasyu in the Mahābhārata. In Simon Brodbeck, Adam Bowles and Alf Hiltebeitel (Ed.), The Churning of the Epics and Purāṇas: Proceedings of the Epics and Purāṇas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference (pp. 155-172) New Delhi: Dev Publishers & Distributors.

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) 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

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

Areas of research

International History

Religion and Culture