Studies in Religion and the Everyday
Studies in Religion and the Everyday is a collection of essays that address the contours of religious beliefs and practices in the context of everyday life in India.
Farhana Ibrahim is Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. A social anthropologist, her research interests include the study of borders, policing, migration, and ethnographic perspectives on the state. With a PhD from Cornell University, her ethnographic research, spanning almost two decades, centres on the western Indian region of Kutch. Her first book, Settlers, Saints, and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India (Routledge, 2009) focuses on Muslim pastoral communities in Gujarat along the Kutch-Sindh border. Her second book, From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border (Cornell University Press, 2021) is an ethnography of policing, civil-military relations, kinship, and surveillance on a South Asian borderland. She has also co-edited South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect (with Tanuja Kothiyal; Cambridge University Press, 2021).