“…In India, some mental health professionals have adopted recovery frameworks constructed in Europe and North America, yet recovery approaches as a first step need to reflect the local cultural context and identify local concepts of 'recovery', to allow a shared understanding of what recovery is and how it is 'practiced' in that place (Gopal andHenderson 2015, Bayetti, Jadhav et al 2016). Indian studies have identified the importance of community resources such as temple healing (Raguram, Venkateswaran et al 2002), knowledge and inclusive attitudes (Shidhaye and Kermode 2013) and caregiver perspectives on recovery (Janardhana, Raghevendra et al 2018), and have called for a greater emphasis on recovery (Chaturvedi andThirthalli 2015, Agarwal andSinha 2016). However, there remains a large challenge in developing vernacular concepts of recovery contextually valid in India in the community (Gopal and Henderson 2015, Bayetti, Jadhav et al 2016, Janardhana, Raghevendra et al 2018) and that build on frameworks of clinically applied anthropology among mental health professionals (Jadhav 2013).…”