An "Open Pages in South Asian Studies" workshop was held at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, on April 27-28, 2011. The purpose was to allow scholars to concentrate on details that still remain "blank" or "unrevealed" for this or that reason, whether objective of subjective, deliberately or accidentally. Workshop panelists were asked to explore such "open pages;" this volume presents a collection of papers delivered at the workshop. The volume is evenly divided in terms of historical research. The first four papers of the book may be regarded as belonging to "classical...