EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
An Indian researcher’s community-based inquiry gives readers a concrete counterpoint to hospital-based and Euro-American NDE accounts. Its short format makes methods and limits available for discussion.
Good starting place if…
You want a concise research report that asks how prevalence and reported features change across settings.
Know before you begin…
The reported rate applies to the surveyed villages and the study’s case-finding method, not to India as a whole. Retrospective interviews and local reporting shape what could be found; familiar religious figures should be understood in context rather than translated into Western equivalents.