Lucinda Ramberg in When the Devi is Your Husband challenges the portrayal of the Indian women “given” to goddess Devi called devadasis as the victims of inhumane sex trafficking and market economy. The author argues that devadasis appear to be gifts and givers simultaneously and their participations into material transaction does not undermine their agency and personhood. In fact, it elevates their social and economic importance since devadasis are entitled to inherit land, pass the name to their children, function as the head of the households, perform symbolic distribution of wealth during the major festivities such as Rande Hunnime. Then why the devadasis are largely perceived as “nothing but prostitutes? We should probably refer to Michel