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Jasbir Lal Jat
An Indian boy who appeared to die of smallpox at three and a half in 1954, revived, and then claimed to be Sobha Ram, a Brahmin of another village who had died in a fall from a wedding chariot at about the same time; a classic replacement case.
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.