The Jasbir Jatav Possession-Reincarnation Case

Record summary

Jasbir Jatav reportedly survived a severe illness and subsequently behaved as though he were a deceased Brahmin man named Sobha Ram, including altered food practices, speech and social identification. Accounts describe an intermediary period in which a local woman taught or mediated the new identity. Stevenson investigated the case as a possible possession-type reincarnation case rather than a straightforward childhood-memory case. It matters for comparison of identity alteration and cultural idioms of possession, but the chronology, witness reliability and medical details require verification.