These are some portraits of Ho and Mundari villagers from the two settlements where I did my fieldwork in the Porahat area of West Singhbhum, Jharkhand. In that area, Ho and Mundari people used to identify themselves as the ‘same kind of people’ (mied jati hoko). As such, they used to intermarry and ‘eat together’ (jom-nu). However, some of them converted the local “Shiuli” dharom (local Hindu-Buddhist sect) and started to act as members of a separate “caste”.