In the debate on religious conversion in India the focus has mainly been on Christianisation - an agenda pushed forward by Hindu communalism. What has been relatively unnoticed is another kind of proselytisation, equally real and concrete, that is the conversion of faiths of tribal masses by Hindu proselytisers. Such conversion has concretised in the form of processes like Ghar Wapsi (homecoming) along with Shuddikaran (purification), on the one hand and the ...