Malvika Sharma is currently a Nehru-Fulbright Post-Doctoral Visiting Research Fellow at Department of Religion, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, U.S. She has previously worked at Institute for Economic Growth, New Delhi. She has a doctorate in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research work has appeared in key journals such as H.A.U. the Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, Asian Ethnicity, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, among others.

• List of Illustrations, Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: Partitioned Ethnicities and Emergent Borderlands: The Rola of Santaali, Chapter 2: Ethnic Plurality, Religious Assertion and the Everyday: The Past Through the Present, Chapter 3: Cultural Religious Plurality and the Sikh Faith, Chapter 4: Caste, Marginality and the Dalit-Religion, Conclusion, Annexure, Index.