The Shiuli dharom is a very local Hindu reformist movement introduced by a pujari from Shiuli village in central Bihar in the 1920s – a period of religious crisis after the collapse of the Birsa Munda rebellion. Shiuli converts self-identified as Buddhists as they worship Gautam Buddha. Curiously, Shiuli is a Muslim village famous for its Sufi saint tomb and a site of pilgrimage!