Dear Colleagues,
Some of you may be interested in the recently published book, details of
which are below.
Please feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested in this volume.
Perspectives of Female Researchers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the
Study of Gujarati Identities
Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom A. Mukadam (Eds.)
2016, 188 pages
ISBN 978-3-8325-4124-8 Price: 34.00 €
This fascinating book presents a wide-ranging collection of
interdisciplinary research on Gujarati identities in India and the
diaspora. An international group of women resear- chers from different
academic backgrounds has gathered a rich set of data that provide fresh
insights and raise many searching questions. We find here theoretical and
practical perspectives linked to social, cultural, historical, literary and
personal concerns that will appeal to and challenge a wide readership. A
most remarkable volume on which the editors are to be congratulated.
Professor Ursula King FRSA University of Bristol
In this welcome volume, women scholars draw out the many facets of identity
as it is forged in the minds and bodies, and social, spiritual and business
worlds of Gujaratis in India and the diaspora. It is rare indeed to find a
book which discusses in such detail the impact of gender and ethnicity on
the research process as well as on the lives of those studied.
Professor Kim Knott University of Lancaster
Contents
Foreword by Eleanor Nesbitt
Contributors
Introduction - Gujarati Realities: Being a Female Researcher
*Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom A. Mukadam *
1 Diaspora, Memory, and Culture: Reading Gendered Gujarati Identity in Mira
Kamdar’s *Motiba’s Tattoos *
*Asma Sayed *
2 In Search of the Feminine: Exploring Female Characters in Early Twentieth
Century Gujarati Novels
*Shvetal Vyas Pare *
3 A History for Gujarat: The Imagining of a Region in Edalji Dosabhai’s and
Ichharam Desai’s Narratives
*Beatriz Martinez Saavedra *
4 Raja Bhagvatsinh and Rani Nandkunvarba of Gondal: “Valiant Champions of
Female Emancipation”
*Aarti Bhalodia *
5 Sanctuary for the Soul: The Centrality of the *Jamatkhana *in Religious
Identity
Formation
*Sharmina Mawani *
6 “Doing prayer we kept our culture”: Hindu Sacred Rites among the
Gujaratis
in Britain and Italy
*Agnes Zsofia Mayer *
7 Culture in Motion: Dance as an Embodied Practice of Cultural
Transmission
*Hannelore Roos *
8 Heritage Language Maintenance: Second-Generation Gujaratis in London
*Anjoom A. Mukadam *
9 Diaspora, Remittances and Development: A Case Study of the Dharmaj
Society of London
*Milly Sil *
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Dr. Sharmina Mawani
Vice-President/Treasurer
Gujarat Studies Association
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Website: www.gujaratstudies.org
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