ABSTRACT
The western state of Gujarat in India is famous as the land oftraders, industrialists and global emigrants, but it is alsohome to Adivasis, Indian migrant labourers and African immigrants. Gujarat is a place where different religious communities have settled side by side for centuries. High and low Hindu castes interacted on various levels of power and dominance with high and low Muslim jamat (kinship associations), Jain communities, Parsis and Christians. Rarely did these communities co-exist in a state of hermetical enclosure. Rather, religious pluralism manifested itself through the historical proliferation of context-bound practices that fostered communication across socio-religious boundaries.
