This notebook includes the English translation of a number of interviews and speeches recorded  🔊 (listen) during a festival (see pictures) held by the local Birsaite sect on May 1999:

• Interview with the local pujari of the Shiuli dharom – a local Hindu-Buddhist sect 🔊 (listen);
• Interview with Birsa Munda, a local political leader of the Jharkhand movement as well as member of the Birsaite sect 🔊 (listen)
• Songs and speeches by Birsaite leaders about key features/ideologies of the sect and, critically, about millennial expectations with the coming of year 2000 (🔊 listen).