rrajpopat@um.edu.mo
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Rishi RAJPOPAT
Education
- PhD (Sanskrit Studies), St John’s College, University of Cambridge – 2022
- MSt with Distinction (Sanskrit Studies), St Anne’s College, University of Oxford – 2017
Research Interests
- Buddhism and Hinduism
- Vedic and Indo-European studies
- Sanskrit philology and linguistics
- Philosophy of religion
- Applied and practical theology
Book(s) by invitation:
Pāṇini’s Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to An Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar (Publication Date for USA: 16 Dec 2025). Harvard University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674297647.
Papers / Book chapters:
- Rajpopat, R. (2024). The Historical Reception of Panini’s Sanskrit Grammar. In: Vemsani, L. (ed.) Handbook of Indian History. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6207-1_6.
- Rajpopat, R. (2023). The Evolution of Conflict Resolution Tools in the Early Pāṇinian Tradition. Bhāṣā – Journal of South Asian Linguistics, Philology, and Grammatical Traditions 2(1), 31-58. http://doi.org/10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/01/002.
- Rajpopat, R. (2022). Are Some Metarules More Helpful Than Others? Sambhāṣā: Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism 38, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.18999/sambh.38.59.
- Academic Editor, Hinduism (2022-2025), St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews
- Gonda Postdoctoral Fellow (2022), International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University