About the Author

Dr Nicholas Sutton, is the Continuing Education Director at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He received his Phd from Lancaster University in 1995. His thesis was on the religious teachings of the Mahabharata. Dr Sutton has been teaching Hinduism for two decades. He lectures in Religious Studies for the Open University, and in Hinduism for the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Religious Doctrines in the Mahabharata and a translation of the Bhagavad-gita.