Session 1: Perspectives on Kutch?

‘What is Kutch?’
Edward Simpson
London School of Economics

‘Infrastructure as Exclusion: Distributed Electricity Generation in Kutch’
Christopher Joshi
DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford

‘Exploring the Gulf of Kutch in the Middle of the 18th Century’
GA Nadri
PhD Candidate, University of Leiden

‘The Gujarati Seafaring Tradition: Its Beginning in the Third Millennium BC’
Gregory Possehl
University of Pennsylvania

Session 2: Histories and Imagined Identities

‘The Gujarati Identity and Parsis in the Late Nineteenth Century’
Riho Isaka
University of Tokyo

‘(Re)imagining the Gujarati Ismaili ‘community’ on the East African Coast (c 1900)’
Zulfikar Hirji
Wolfson College, University of Oxford and The Institute of Ismaili Studies

‘A Medical Mission to the Bhils of Northeast Gujarat’
David Hardiman
University of Warwick

‘Rapacious Ministers versus Masked Saviours: Bombay Cinema, the Princely States and the Nation, 1921- 1928’
Kaushik Bhaumik
Open University

Session 3: Belonging and Boundaries in Gujarat and Beyond

‘‘Sanskar Through the Rituals of Childhood – Gujarati Hindu and Jain Practices in Harrow’
Alison Spiro
Harrow Primary Care Trust

‘‘Case Study of a Multi-Cultural Slum in Ahmedabad: Redefining Identities through Cultural Exchange’
Laila Halani
DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford

‘ “There are no non-Gujaratis in this Village” / “We can Recognise a Waghri from his Chaal”: Constructing and Contesting a Gujarati-Hindu Identity’
Nikita Sud
DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford

‘A Darshan on the Trading Floor’
Pierre Lachaier
Ecole française d'Extrême-orient, Paris

Session 4: Religion, culture and identity

‘The Bhajana Culture of Religious Gujarat: The Textual Transmission and Thematic Convergence’
Françoise Mallison
Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes

‘Dress and Identity among the Rabaris of Kachchh’
Eiluned Edwards
Practice, Research and Advancement in South Asian Design and Architecture, De Montfort University

‘Praying and Drumming – Sidi at the Junction of African Spirit Possession and Sufism in Gujarat’
Helene Basu
University of Berlin