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Sumitra Singh
A young village wife in northern India who in 1985 seemed to die, revived, and said she was Shiva, an educated Brahmin woman found dead on a railway line two months earlier; she recognised many of Shiva's relatives and took on her manners, in what her investigators called a case of the possession type.
Uttara Huddar
A Marathi-speaking lecturer in Nagpur who from 1974, aged 32, had phases as 'Sharada', a Bengali-speaking married woman of the early nineteenth century; male relatives Sharada named matched a family genealogy from Bansberia, and two independent investigations found no ordinary way Uttara could have learned to speak Bengali.