Dr Adam Bowles

Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions, Deputy Head of School and SiR 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

Publications

Books (4)

Book Chapters (6)

Journal Articles (5)

Books

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

Bowles, Adam (2008). Maha-bharata: Book Eight. Karna Volume Two: Cantos 55-96. New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York University Press; JJC Foundation.

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

Bowles, Adam (2006). Maha-bharata: Book Eight. Karna Volume One: Cantos 1-54. New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York University Press; JJC Foundation.

Book Chapters

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

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

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

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

Bowles, Adam (2016). Reflections on the upākhyānas in the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata. (pp. 320-358) edited by Adluri, Vishwa and Bagchee, Joydeep. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004271494_012

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

Journal Articles

Bowles, Adam (2022). Review of Andrijanić, Ivan / Sellmer, Sven (Hg.): On the Growth and Composition of the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas. Relationship to Kāvya. Social and Economic Context. Proceedings of the Fifth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas August 2008. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts/Ibis grafika 2016. XXXVI, 534 S. 8°. Hardbd. ISBN 978-953-7997-28-1.. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 117 (1), 73-76.

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