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Inhalt: • Arian Hopf: Muhammad Hasan Askari: Mulla-Turned Modernist or Saviour of Tradition? • Agi Wittich: Harnessing Authenticity in Iyengar Yoga: Legitimizing and Romanticizing Women-Oriented Yoga through Sanskrit Texts • Sayan Chattopadhyay: Solitude of an Obscure Bengal Village: Tagore's Pastoral Sojourn and the Crisis of Readership • Ofer Peres: Purūravas in Tamil Temple Mythology: A Case Study from the Kaveri Delta • Gautam Liu: Von wegen altes Eisen: Die Progressivistische Kritik an der Naī kahānī • Hans Harder: Satirical Stotras in Colonial Bengali and Hindi Literatures