CONTENTS: Director's Note-Ashish Anand, * The Body of the Ascetic-Gayatri Sinha, * Embodying the Mahavratas: Female Renouncers Among the Jains-Manisha Sethi, * Multivalent Presences: The Ascetic Body of Ramanuja in the Shrivaishnava Tradition-Prathik Murali, * The Palimpsest of Embodied Woman-Ascetics of Bhakti-Neeti Singh, * Ascetic Body in the Early Sikh Art-Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, * The Mughals in India and the Contemporary Intellectual Practice of Syncretic Asceticism-Nuzhat Kazmi, * Catalogue, * Glossary, About the Editor, About the Contributors.