Contemporary practices: India

Elmore, M. 2015

‘Contemporary Hindu approaches to death: living with the dead’, in K. Garces-Foley, K. (ed.) Death and Religion in a Changing World, London: Routledge, 23-44.

Hadders H. 2024

‘COVID-19 corpse management in Nepal: handling the deceased at Pashupati electric crematorium during the COVID-19 pandemic’, Mortality, 30:3, 657-675.

Singh, R. 2022

Dead in Banaras: An Ethnography of Funeral Travelling, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract