What is it about?
This article contributes to a better understanding of contemporary processes of region-making in India as constituted by trans-regional mobilities and connections. It does so through a case study of a transnational community of Gujarati Muslims, Sunni Vohras from the region of Charotar in central Gujarat, India.
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Why is it important?
The article conceptualizes a region as constituted by mobility and demonstrates how a regional homeland can be uncovered through ‘travel-along’ ethnographic research.
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The author is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.
Sanderien Verstappen
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: Mobility and the Region, Journal of South Asian Development, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0973174117711869.
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