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PUBLICATIONS BOOKS The
Wedding of Arjuna and Subhadra: The Kutiyattam Drama "Subhadra-Dhananjaya"
Historical Dictionary of
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The Sun God's Daughter and King Samvarana: "Tapati-Samvaranam" and the Kutiyattam Drama Tradition. N. P. Unni, coauthor. (Delhi: Nag Publishers, 1995).
Krsna Dvaipayana Vyasa and the Mahabharata: A New Interpretation. (Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1990). 2nd edition Seer of the Fifth Veda (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1999).
ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
"Skirting the Issue: Gender and Identity in Kutiyattam Sanskrit Drama". in Notes from a Mandala: Essays in Honor of Wendy Doniger. (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2002).
The Whale Avatar of the Hindoos in Melville's Moby Dick," Literature and Theology 15, no. 4 (2001): 358-72. P.W. Hall, coauthor.
"Ecology and Theology at the Birthplace of Krsna," pp. 247-67 in Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion & Ecology in Hindu India, ed. by L. E. Nelson (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1998). Reprinted in Worldviews, Religion, & the Environment: A Global Anthology, R.C. Foltz, editor (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2003).
"Temple Rites and Temple Servants: The Role of Religion in the Survival of Kerala's Kutiyattam Drama Tradition," International Journal of Hindu Studies 1 (1997): 97-115.
"The Unworshipped Avatar: Vyasa's Relationships with Visnu and Brahma," Journal of Vaisnava Studies 4, no. 3 (Summer, 1996): 57-64.
"Tapati-Samvaranam, a Kutiyattam Drama by Kulasekhara Varman. Introduced by Bruce M. Sullivan. Translated, with notes, by Bruce M. Sullivan and N. P. Unni." Asian Theatre Journal 13, no. 1 (Spring, 1996): 26-53.
"Buddhism," in The Asian American Encyclopedia, 6 vols., edited by F. Ng (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1995), 1: 144-48.
"Religions of India," in The Asian American Encyclopedia (see above), 3: 666-68.
"Paradise Polluted: Religious Dimensions of the Vrindavana Ecology Movement," in This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, pp. 565-71. Edited by Roger Gottlieb (London: Routledge, 1995).
"Author and Authority in the Epic," in Modern Evaluation of the Mahabharata: The Professor R. K. Sharma Felicitation Volume, pp. 19-23. Edited by S. P. Narang (Delhi: Nag Pubs., 1995).
"The Religious Authority of the Mahabharata: Vyasa and Brahma in the Hindu Scriptural Tradition," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62, 2 (Summer, 1994): 377-401.
"The Epic's Two Grandfathers, Bhisma and Vyasa," in Essays on the Mahabharata, pp. 204-11. Edited by Arvind Sharma (Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1991).