Obituary: Julia Leslie: A Life in South Asian Studies

(1980) ‘The Religious Role of Women in Ancient India’, unpublished MPhil thesis. Oxford: University of Oxford.

(1983a) ‘Essence and Existence: Women and Religion in Ancient Indian Texts’, in Pat Holden (ed.) Women’s Religious Experience. Cross-cultural Perspectives (pp. 89–112). Beckenham: Croom Helm .

(1983b) The Religious Role of Women in Ancient India: A Discussion of the Strīdharmapaddhati of Tryāmbakayajvan. Oxford: University of Oxford. [DPhil thesis, published in 1989].

(1984) Perahera [A novel]. London: Victor Gollancz .

(1986) ‘Strīsvabhāva: The Inherent Nature of Women’, in N.J. Allen , R.F. Gombrich , T. Raychaudhuri and G. Rizvi (eds) Oxford University Papers on India. Vol. 1, Part 1 (pp. 28–58). Delhi: Oxford University Press .

(1989) The Perfect Wife: The Orthodox Hindu Woman According to the Strīdharmapaddhati of Tryambakayajvan. Delhi and Oxford: Oxford University Press .

(1991a) ‘Introduction’, in Julia Leslie (ed.) Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women (pp. 1–3). London: Pinter .

(1991b) ‘A Problem of Choice: The Heroic Sati or the Widow-Ascetic’, in Julia Leslie (ed.) Rules and Remedies in Classical Indian Law (pp. 46–61). Leiden et al: Brill .

(1991c) Religion, Gender and Dharma: The Case of the Widow-Ascetic. Leeds: University of Leeds .

(ed.) (1991d) Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women. London: Pinter .

(ed.) (1991e) Rules and Remedies in Classical Indian Law. Leiden et al.: Brill .

[Panels of the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Kern Institute, Leiden, August 23–29, 1987, Vol. IX].

(1991f) ‘Śrī and Jyesthā : Ambivalent Role Models for Women’, in Julia Leslie (ed.) Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women (pp. 107–127). London: Pinter .

(1991g) ‘Suttee or Satī: Victim or Victor?’, in Julia Leslie (ed.) Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women (pp. 175–191). London: Pinter .

(1992) ‘The Significance of Dress for the Orthodox Hindu Woman’, in Ruth Barnes and Joanne B. Eicher (eds) Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning in Cultural Contexts (pp. 198–213). New York and Oxford: Berg .

(1994) ‘Some Traditional Indian Views on Menstruation and Female Sexuality’, in Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich (eds) Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality (pp. 63–81). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . [Reprinted as 1996a].

(1996a) ‘Menstruation Myths’, in Julia Leslie (ed.) Myth and Mythmaking: Continuous Evolution in Indian Tradition (pp. 87–105). Richmond: Curzon Press .

(ed.) (1996b) Myth and Mythmaking: Continuous Evolution in Indian Tradition. Richmond: Curzon Press . [SOAS Collected Papers on South Asia, 12].

(1998a) ‘A Bird Bereaved: The Identity and Significance of Vālmīki’s krauñca’ , Journal of Indian Philosophy 26: 455–487 .

(1998b) ‘Dowry, “Dowry Deaths” and Violence Against Women: A Journey of Discovery’, in Werner Menski (ed.) South Asians and the Dowry Problem (pp. 21–35). Stoke-on-Trent and London: Trentham Books and SOAS . [GEMS No. 6].

(1998c) ‘Understanding Basava: History, Hagiography and a Modern Kannada Drama’ , Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 61(2): 228–261 .

(1999) ‘The Implications of the Physical Body: Health, Suffering and Karma in Hindu Thought’, in John R. Hinnells and R. Porter (eds) Religion, Health and Suffering (pp. 23–45). London: Kegan Paul .

(ed.) (2000a) Invented Identities: The Interplay of Gender, Religion, and Politics in India. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press . (With Mary McGee.)

(2000b) ‘Report for the Bhagavan Valmiki Action Committee (26 June)’, unpublished.

(2003) Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions. Hinduism and the Case of Vālmīki. Aldershot: Ashgate .

(2005) ‘The Implications of Bhakti for the Story of Vālmīki’, in Anna King and John L. Brockington (eds) The Intimate Other: Divine Love in Indian Religions (pp. 54–77). New Delhi: Orient Longman .