Hardgrove provides an ethnographic perspective – an insider’s view – of the Marwari, their festivals, practices within their temples, and their perseverance throughout history against the law in order to maintain at least part of their tradition. Direct responses from Marwari people are given as well as a first-hand experience of Hardgrove’s when she witnessed that Marwari practices. In this article, she has combined the typical scholar’s method of historicizing events in order to provide context and a kind of journalistic reporting when discussing her anthropological research, which gives the reader a reliable account of the Marwaris’ perspective. This is important because, as Hardgrove points out, it is often wildly misrepresented by the
