Dr Varada Sambhus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai, Maharashtra. She completed her Ph.D. on ‘Pilgrimage and the Bhakti Public: A Study of Varkari Practices in Maharashtra’ from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a research fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Exploring socio-political dimensions of bhakti and religion is her core research area.