Cults of saints have been present in India for centuries. They constitute a psecial, as well as, typically Indian form of religiosity in which the sanctified figure has often been equated with the idea of God. Beliefs and practices associated with the saints also largely form the folk and living religion in India, where the simplistic and modern division of Indian religious world into its Hindu and Muslim parts diversifies. The goal of this article is to provide an example of local cult of the Good Sultan (Cang Sultan), found in the Western parts of the Indian state of Maharashtra, to describe the forms of local religiosity of Western Indian pastoralists (dhangars) and suggest the possible historical contexts of the Good Sultan´s cult., Dušan Deák., and Obsahuje seznam literatury