Biography
Dylan Raj Budhu is a Hindu priest and M.A. student in Religion, concentrating in South Asian Religions. As a scholar-practitioner, his research focuses on Hinduism in post-indenture diasporas, particularly among Indo-Caribbean communities and their connections to South Asia. His undergraduate thesis, “From Kala Pani to Ganga: The Transoceanic Journey of Sacred Waters in Indo-Caribbean Hinduism,” examined pilgrimage practices to bodies of water across the Caribbean and India, through which new sacred geographies emerged in diaspora. He is a Critical Language Scholar who studied Hindi in Jaipur, India, and is continuing his language study at Columbia. His broader interests include comparative diaspora studies, pilgrimage, and lived religion.