This is not a book in the commercial sense; it is my PhD dissertation, available online via my PhilPapers page. It marks the beginning of my mature research program. In this work, I address a central problem: how translation can...

This is a volume that I edited, and I wrote an extended introduction to the volume too. From the publisher: “Featuring leading scholars from philosophy and religious studies, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics dispels the myth that Indian thinkers and...

The publisher imposed a strict 90,000-word limit on the book, which meant that I had to leave out much of the research history that led to it. I plan on writing a Substack on it and will link that here....

From the publisher: “This volume brings together renowned experts in the philosophy of religion, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan, Joshua Farris and Steven B. Cowan, to present four key starting points in the life after death debate.” Steven Cown...

Hinduism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation explores Hinduism and the distinction between the secular and religious on a global scale. According to Ranganathan, a careful philosophical study of Hinduism reveals it as the microcosm of philosophical disagreements with Indian resources, across...

Providing a decolonial, action-focused account of Yoga philosophy, this practical work from Dr. Shyam Ranganathan, pioneering scholar in the field of Indian moral philosophy, focuses on the South Asian tradition to explore what Yoga was like prior to colonization. It...

Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra (second century CE) is the basic text of one of the nine canonical schools of Indian philosophy. In it the legendary author lays down the blueprint for success in yoga, now practiced the world over. Patañjali draws...

This is my first book. It has many flaws, but it also has many strength as it was the first to identify what the problem in the literature is, when speaking about the so called absence of ethics in the...