I am interested in how oral traditions, songs and popular religious movements navigate borders between India, Bangladesh and the Andaman Islands. My scholarship is driven by social justice, epistemic disobedience, and the decolonization of knowledge. I work with communities of low castes singers, preachers and performers, in a multi-sited and peripatetic sonic ethnography, complemented by the study of literary sources in modern and premodern South Asian languages. My current project is on the soundscapes of religion and displacement. I focus on a numerous, yet understudied community of “untouchable” practitioners called Matua, and their circulation of performers, religious items and ideas across the borderlands and borderseas of the Bay of Bengal. I understand Global Encounters as a space where radically participatory projects and ethical international collaborations can emerge, and as a methodological laboratory in which sensory epistemologies from the global South and embodied ways of knowing can be taken seriously, unsettling the conventions of modern academia.