‘Engagements with Tradition in the Gujarati World’
‘Engagements with Tradition in the Gujarati World’
‘Engagements with Tradition in the Gujarati World’May 14, 2004School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Session 1: Perspectives on Kutch?
- ‘What is Kutch?’Edward SimpsonLondon School of Economics
- ‘Infrastructure as Exclusion: Distributed Electricity Generation in Kutch’Christopher JoshiDPhil Candidate, University of Oxford
- ‘Exploring the Gulf of Kutch in the Middle of the 18th Century’GA NadriPhD Candidate, University of Leiden
- ‘The Gujarati Seafaring Tradition: Its Beginning in the Third Millennium BC’Gregory PossehlUniversity of Pennsylvania
- Session 2: Histories and Imagined Identities
‘The Gujarati Identity and Parsis in the Late Nineteenth Century’Riho IsakaUniversity of Tokyo
- ‘(Re)imagining the Gujarati Ismaili ‘community’ on the East African Coast (c 1900)’Zulfikar HirjiWolfson College, University of Oxford and The Institute of Ismaili Studies
- ‘A Medical Mission to the Bhils of Northeast Gujarat’David HardimanUniversity of Warwick
- ‘Rapacious Ministers versus Masked Saviours: Bombay Cinema, the Princely States and the Nation, 1921- 1928’Kaushik BhaumikOpen University
Session 3: Belonging and Boundaries in Gujarat and Beyond
- ‘‘Sanskar Through the Rituals of Childhood – Gujarati Hindu and Jain Practices in Harrow’Alison SpiroHarrow Primary Care Trust
- ‘‘Case Study of a Multi-Cultural Slum in Ahmedabad: Redefining Identities through Cultural Exchange’Laila HalaniDPhil 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 SudDPhil Candidate, University of Oxford
- ‘A Darshan on the Trading Floor’Pierre LachaierEcole française d'Extrême-orient, Paris
Session 4: Religion, culture and identity
- ‘The Bhajana Culture of Religious Gujarat: The Textual Transmission and Thematic Convergence’Françoise MallisonEcole Practique des Hautes Etudes
- ‘Dress and Identity among the Rabaris of Kachchh’Eiluned EdwardsPractice, 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 BasuUniversity of Berlin
