“The Witch’s Mirror”: A Review of Scholarship on Witchcraft and a Reassessment Based on the Intersectional Lived Experiences of Dalits and Adivasis

This article explores intersectionality of identities within Dalit and Adivasi traditions through a review contemporary research on practices witchcraft. Witchcraft occur all over the Indian subcontinent form focal points beyond fixed structures stereotypes. By approaching witchcraft perspective lived experience ones involved, we gain better understanding individuals larger socio-economic context practice itself without falling into trap recasting from experience, it becomes clear that occurrence is outcome complex intersectional power structures, such as gender, caste, class religion/spirituality. However, approach accomplishes even more by addressing diversity, ambiguity dynamics (power) structures. The knowledge drawn Dalits Adivasis leads to new academic discourses ‘Dalit Studies’, ‘Critical Caste Theory’, Feminism’ Queer Movement’. These provide counter-hegemonic knowledge, adding challenging academia.