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Item Open Access Aasharyathaputhanvidu Migration in Identities(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2018) Tharian, Roshni; Desai, Binita; Modi, JayminUntil the 1950’s, ours was a Syrian Catholic family in Prakanam, Pathanamthitta district of South Kerala. Despite relative widespread education, there was little hope for employment in the state. This propelled a large movement of Malayalees across the country. In the 1950’s, Ahmedabad was running to the siren of the mills. My grandfather became one of the several Malayalees that had given in to the appeal of the textile mill industry. They dominated clerical positions in a state that planned to carve its identity as an industrial haven. Migratory influx from Kerala toward Gujarat was thus sustained. Malayalees were to fill up positions that the locals were not addressing. The prospect of a regular salary was highly desirable to the Malayalee population. But the city offered more than employment. With increase in numbers, communities began to cluster. The sixties saw the coming together of a new community, that shared the common tale of financial responsibility of those back home. The arrival and settlement of migrants revived a dormant church in Ahmedabad that had hitherto held intermittent services for floating populations. The Vatican II council in 1964, in its revised worldview set the church and the migrants on the same footing; to acquire the local ethos. Consequently, with each generation, the migrant population learned to find a sense of belonging in their destination city, having little in common with the identity and struggle of the previous generations. This documentary attempts to record the movement in identities of Malayalee Catholic migrants to the city of Ahmedabad. The church becomes a core aspect, that finds symbiosis in its relationship rearing the migrants that grow up to contribute significantly as able members of the church.Item Open Access In Search of Buddhist Gujarat between Rhetoric and Reality(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2018) Sheth, Aarsh; Singh, Saurabh; Mazumdar, Madhumita; Pandya, VishvajitIt is for the last few years that the state of Gujarat is suddenly being promoted internationally as a Buddhist heritage destination. Several Buddhist heritage sites were identified at an international seminar in the year 2010 as tourist and pilgrim destinations. In a high profile promotional blitz that included a revamped Gujarat Tourism website, brochures and a much popular tourism promotional film featuring the celebrity actor Amitabh Bachchan, the Gujarat government under the then Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi claimed that Buddhism had as much a presence in Gujarat as that in Bihar. This project was inspired by the compelling power of this tourism ad campaign and sought to follow the Buddhist heritage trail in Gujarat and see how these sites were perceived by followers of Buddhism on the one hand and by locals on the other. The objective was to understand how heritage promotion initiatives from the state resonated in actual social contexts and how tourism promotion rhetoric matched up with the reality on the ground. We went on a quest to discover this new dimension of Gujarat. We visited some of the sites only to realize that there is actually no movement in terms of the development of any of the presented sites as tourist destinations since the year 2010. Employing ethnographic methods and together with historical, political and sociological literature, we tried to understand the reality of Buddhist tourism in Gujarat, not as part of a broader religious or historical movement but rather as an “Invented tradition” created and promoted by the imperatives of tourism and politics.