The Idea of Gujarat Workshop
Key information
- Date
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- Time
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9:00 am to 3:30 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- 15th May L67 / 16th May Khalili Lecture Theatre
About this event
Thursday 15th May (L67)
9.00-9.30 Introduction
Session I
9.30-10.00 Shreeyash Palshikar (Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh)
Overlapping imaginations: Maha Gujarat and Maharashtra in the battle for Bombay
10.00 -10.30 Harald Tambs-Lyche (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, Amiens, and LISST-Centre d’Anthropologie, Toulouse)
Between the sand the sea: Reflections on the specificity of caste in Gujarat.
10.30-11.00 Discussion: David Hardiman (University of Warwick)
11.00 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee
Session II
11.30-12.00 John McLeod (University of Louisville)
Khari mata, stri ane rani: Introducing Queen Victoria to “the Gujarati population of India”
12.00-12.30 Amrita Shodhan (Independent Scholar)
Nats and jamats in Bombay Presidency in the early nineteenth century
12.30-1.00 Discussion: Samira Sheikh (The Institute of Ismali Studies)
1.00-2.00 Lunch
Session III
2.00-2.30 Hanna Kim (New York University)
Contemporary Gujarat from an ethnographic perspective:
Swaminarayan bhakti and some considerations for unpacking assumptions about religion and religious subjectivity
2.30-3.00 Samira Sheikh (The Institute of Ismaili Studies)
Mata, mandir and Muslims: Sacred space and its guardians in Gujarat
3.00-3.30 Discussion: Rachel Dwyer (SOAS)
3.30-4.00 Tea/Coffee
Session IV
4.00-4.30 Rita Kothari (Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad)
Moolk ain desh : Understanding spaces Sindhis of Gujarat inhabit
4.30-5.00 Eiluned Edwards (Victoria and Albert Museum and London College of Fashion)
The social fabric: Textiles, dress and identity in Kachchh
5.00-5.30 Discussion: Edward Simpson (SOAS)
Senior Common Room (SCR) Bar open
Dinner for speakers and discussants at Imli
Friday 16th May (Khalili Lecture Theatre)
Session V
9.30-10.00 Riho Isaka (University of Tokyo)
Defining Gujarat and the Gujaratis
10.00 -10.30 Edward Simpson (SOAS)
Geographies of the past: The ethnographic history of Bhuj
10.30-11.00 Discussion: John McLeod (University of Louisville)
11.00 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee
Session VI
11.30-12.00 Nikita Sud (QEH, University of Oxford)
Narrowing possibilities of stateness: The case of land in Gujarat
12.00-12.30 Howard Spodek (Temple University)
Equipping the laboratory for Hindutva: Religion and
politics in Ahmedabad, 1900-2008
12.30-1.00 Discussion: Mario Rutten (University of Amsterdam)
1.00 -2.00 Lunch
Session VII
2.00-3.30 Roundtable discussion and concluding address by Professor Jan Breman (University of Amsterdam)
Organiser: SOAS Centre of Migration & Diaspora Studies
Contact email: ak83@soas.ac.uk
Sponsor: The British Academy and SOAS