Through the Looking Glass:

In spite of Modi’s promise good days (acche din) in 2014, many Indians still struggle with unemployment, low income, poor health and other difficulties. Though some problems eventually find solutions middle-class metropolitans increasingly seek help from gurus psychologists, long-term misfortune disturbances are frequently attributed to black magic or possession. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork Kanpur Bareilly, this article examines the unintended cosmopolitan effects such practices, which occasionally unfold ways that traverse unsettle official religious boundaries, even polarized times. Heuristically contrasting Modi Alice Wonderland, spells out double bind low-income Hindus who supernatural assistance times crisis: should they follow logic inexpensive efficacy, if necessitating engagement unfamiliar ritual worlds heterotopic spaces associated other? Or rather emergent Hindu nationalist exclusivism, according remedies beyond a repertoire would be inappropriate? The persisting prevalence former under is illustrated three cases, two interrelated. Firstly, we meet female professional seeking against suspected rustic Sufi-Muslim healer. Secondly, Kali devotee spirits disturbed his career marriage renowned dargah. final case shows how familial neglect, economic hardship an interreligious conducted generations earlier came together instances, argues, lie their tendency form anti-structural, counterweight aggressive nationalism.
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