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The late medieval Svetambara Jain tradition has been largely understood in terms of 'decline' and 'turning inward,' effected by the Delhi Sultanate's conquest of Gujarat. Disengaged from the state, the Jain tradition has been thought to have continued in relative isolation from …

Questions surrounding sea-going trade in Early Historic Gujarat are discussed in this dissertation. It is argued that small ports, functioning independently beyond the regulated control of a larger political power, contributed significantly to an international trading sphere in …

The 2002 Gujarati Riots were one of the worst outbreaks of violence between Hindus and Muslims in India in recent history. While there have been some publications on the incident, there has been a startling lack of studies that have looked at the victims' experiences of the riot…

This dissertation takes the routine marginalization and erasure of Muslim presence in the contemporary social and political life of the western Indian state of Gujarat as an entry point into a genealogy of Gujarati regionalism. Through a historical anthropology of the reconfigur…

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The first Indian migrants to what was then known as Southern Rhodesia arrived at the turn of the nineteenth century, in the shadows of the white settler Pioneer Column that came from the south. As the British South Africa Company consolidated its hold over the territory, these m…