Pratap Kumar Penumala

Pratap Kumar Penumala is Emeritus Professor of Hinduism and Comparative Religions in the School of Religion Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In addition to several scholarly essays and articles his publications include The Goddess Lakshmi in South Indian Vaishnavism. Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA USA, 1997, reprinted by Oxford University Press, 2000); Hinduism and The Diaspora: A South African Narrative, Jaipur, New Delhi, India: Rawat Publishers, 2013. His edited volumes include Religious Pluralism and the Diaspora, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006. Contemporary Hinduism (Acumen/Routledge, 2013) and Classical and Contemporary Issues in Indian Philosophy and Religion, (Festschrift in honour of Prof. T.S. Rukmani), (DK Print World, 2013). Indian Diaspora: Socio-cultural and Religious Worlds. Leiden: Brill, 2015, Contemporary Issues in the Indian Diaspora of South Africa, edited by P. Pratap Kumar. New Delhi: Serial Publications, 2016. Currently working on two monographs—Brahmanism: Past and Present; Hinduism in Africa. Currently he is a co-editor of the Hindu Ethics volume potentially published by Bloomsbury (still in progress).