Karline McLain

Educational Background

• Ph.D., University of Texas

Research Interests

• Religion and visual culture in modern India
• Colonial and post-colonial Hinduism
• Gandhi's intentional communities

Teaching Interests

• Hinduism
• Pilgrimage in South Asia
• Hinduism and visual media
• Indian Epics
• Gandhi

Selected Publications

Books

McLain, Karline. 2016. The Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a Global Saint. University of Washington Press.

McLain, Karline. 2009. India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes (Contemporary Indian Studies). Indiana University Press

McLain, Karline. 2026. Living with Gandhi: Experiments in Utopia. Association for Asian Studies.

Digital Publications

McLain, Karline et al. The Living with Gandhi Archive. http://livingwithgandhi.org