Note on translation and transliteration Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction Maps Islandness: A Bay of Bengal Perspective Sounds of Communities Communities of Sound Why Interdisciplinarity? Desecularizing Displacement Why Interdisciplinarity? Sounding Migration, Sensing Caste On Positionality, Islamophobia and Spiritual Kinship PART I ADHIBAS: A Welcoming reception Chapter 1?Matua Identity in Time, Space, and Practice Chandala, Haribbola, Matua Namashudra Movement and Matua Religion, 1812?1947 Post-partition Displacement, Dispersal, and Rehabilitation Displacement and the Matua Network Three Regions, One Archipelago Andamans: Matuas on Literal Islands Matuas in Southern Bangladesh Matuas in West Bengal Chapter 2?Islands of Faith: The Making of Religion in the Context of Displacement Audible Scriptures and Intersections of Text and Sound Matua (Hi-)story-telling and the Dalit Renaissance Are Matuas Hindu? Islamophobic Politics and an Offering of Beef Reassembling the Broken Pieces: A Coconut Necklace and A Wooden Staff Matapitatattva: the Doctrine of the Mother and the Father Avataras of Justice: Subverting Familiar Genealogies of Incarnations Australian Baptist Missionary Converts to Matua Faith: Stories of Vicinity and Distinction from Christianity A Pious Crocodile: Othering Vaishnavism, Legitimizing Islands of Faith Stories and Community PART II MAHOTSAB: A Sonic Feast Chapter 3?Sonic Practices: Poetics and Politics of Displaced Religious Sounds Histories and Ethnographies of Kirtan Matua Style of Kirtan Conductors of Feeling: Kirtaniyas of the Matua community Making Community: A Sensory Framework Danka Matam Acoustic Virility, Liberation Feminized: The Gender of Kirtan Chapter 4?Instantiations of Communities of Sound Sonic Soteriology, Ensounded Sam?dhi Sonic Shield Sonic Flag Sonic Vaccine Loud and Hot: Aesthetics of Sacred Sound Hugging and Mutual Touch: Displays of Touchability Chapter 5?Sonic Epistemologies Sounds like Othering Sound, Folklore, or Unnecessary Noise Islands of Sound: Tradition and Change Islands of Sound: Congregation and Separation Thinking with Communities of Sound Part III MIN MAHOTSAB: A Farewell Chapter 6?Embodied Territory: Tidalectics of Mud and Water Rolling in the Mud Displacement, Emplacement and Embodied Religion Affective Re-territorialization?Moving with Soil and Water Mother and Land?The Gender of Substances Caste and the Politics of Religious Place-making Amphibious Narratives?De-Naturalising Body and Space Aquatic Goddesses and Migrant Rituals of Return Transnational Religious Tidalectics Place?Avataras and Sonic Returns Sounding the Body-land Sonic Avataras Tasting the Body-place Rethinking Religious Place-Making From Islandness Epilogue Bibliography Notes.