Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar studied Comparative Religion, Anthropology and Indian Art History at the Freie Universität in Berlin, where she took her master’s degree and her doctorate in Comparative Religion. Her publications include »Hindu-Frauen zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Religiöse Veränderungen der indischen Mittelschicht im städtischen Umfeld« (Metzler, 2002) and most recently together with Sudhir Kakar »Die Inder. Porträt einer Gesellschaft« (Beck, 2006).