Dear colleagues, with great pleasure I share the publication of a special section "Engaging with Early Modern Indian Philosophy: Vedānta and Beyond" edited by me and including the following contributions:
- "Preface: Engaging with Early Modern Indian Philosophy: Vedānta and Beyond” https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2025.2559433 
- "‘I Will Make a ṭīkā’: Translation, Commentary and Tradition in Nājar Ānandrām’s Paramānanda Prabodha” by Akshara Ravishankar https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2025.2533455 
- "Dārā Šukōh’s Bhagavad Gītā? The Attribution of the Āb-i Zindagī and Its Place Among the Persian Translations of Indic Philosophical Material” by Raffaello De León-Jones Diani https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2025.2534221
- "Yes to Vedānta, No to Bhakti? Some Philosophical and Religious Novelties of Jasvant Siṃh I’s Brajbhāṣā Prabodha Nāṭaka” by Rosina Pastore https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2025.2526924
These papers are a selection of those presented within the panel I convened at ECSAS 2023, titled ‘The Forms, Genres and Languages of Early Modern Indian Philosophy’ and I am extremely grateful to Akshara and Raffaello to agree to put them together to contribute to this exciting field of research. I hope you will find them thought-provoking!

Best Regards,

Rosina Pastore

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Rosina Pastore, PhD
FWO postdoctoral fellow
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy,
Gent University
Check my book: Vedānta, Bhakti, and Their Early Modern Sources
My new project: When the king does philosophy. The Vedantic writings of Jasvant Singh of Mārvāḍ (1626–1678)
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