Kerala’s Pulluvas and Pampum Tullal is a story about the lives of Kerala’s Pulluva ritual specialists and their days-long ritual performance, pampum tullal, or the “jumping dance” of the serpent deities (nagam or pampu). The ritual is commissioned by members of Kerala’s landed communities to bring health and prosperity to their extended families. Belonging to an ancient South Indian tradition, the ritual is orchestrated by Pulluva ritual specialists, who hold the sole hereditary right to perform it. This book is the first in Kerala to approach this ritual tradition from the viewpoints and agency of its Dalit (formerly known as ‘untouchable’) ritual specialists—men and women, and to examine Pulluva ritual practice in the context of rapid and extensive social change.