Nitya Pawar is a doctoral candidate as Ashoka University, India. Her research focuses on Marathi bhakti. She studies Sant Janabai’s poetry to think about questions of gender and caste as they come together in the domains of mysticism and pedagogy. Her Master’s thesis, which was titled “Namdev: Here and There,” engaged with Sant Namdev’s poems to argue that mobility, especially physical mobility is the driving and uniting idea of the Namdev corpus.