Exploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this
book offers a unique insight into India's rapidly transforming multi-religious society. It …

Laparoscopic tubal ligation is the most prevalent method of contraception amongst India's
rural and urban poor. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan in …

This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of
Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and …

This article examines so-called Miracle Exposure Programs conducted by Atheist activists in
South India as a performance of secular difference. It retraces how activists use the …

The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and
often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with …

In certain parts of India, women are branded as witches, suffer mob humiliation and, at times,
are lynched. To understand this phenomenon, this study engages in a critical analysis of …

Moving beyond what various scholars call the “human exceptionalism” in the social
sciences, this multispecies research explored the relationships between Mycobacterium …

Mental health illnesses have assumed pandemic proportions, especially post-COVID,
adversely impacting society and the global economy. The effect is more pronounced in …

In this thesis, I study the practices of witchcraft among the Khasi, a tribal people of northeast
India. The Khasi form most of the population of the state of Meghalaya. Following British …

In certain parts of India, women are branded as witches, suffer mob humiliation and, at times,
are lynched. To understand this phenomenon, this study engages in a critical analysis of …