The Gujaratis: A portrait of a community

Recommended by: Rasananda Panda

Content:

Part I: Who We Are
1. From the Inside Looking Out; From the Outside Looking In
2. We Are Pragmatic and Practical
3. And Much Else Besides
4. Money Isn't Everything, but It Helps
5. We Laugh ... at Others
6. And We Have Courage
7. What Is Our Asmita?
Part II: The Way We Are
8. Who Is ' Gujarati ', Anyway?
9. What Are You? Who Are You? How Are You?
10. Rich Like Us: Bhatias, Kapols, and Lohanas
11. Richer than Us: Jains
12. We Love Them and Hope They Like Us: Parsis
13. Patels ' R Us
14. Not Equal to Us: Dalits
15. Left Behind by Us: The Adivasis and Denotified Tribes
16. Neither Them, nor Us: Pastoral Communities and Nomads
17. Them, Not Us: Muslims
18. Where Is the Rest of ' Us '?
Part III: Whence We Came
19. In the Beginning ....
20. The Wonder That Was Gujarat
21. Somnath and Its Aftermath
22. Mughal Gujarat
23. Shivaji and the Sacking of Surat
24. Bom - Bom - Bom - Bom Bombay Meri Hai!
25. And a State Is Born ....
Part IV: Where We Live
26. Ame Mumbai Na Rahewasi ( We Are Residents of Bombay )
27. Manchester of the East
28. Surat, Sonani Moorat ( Surat, the Idol of Gold )
29. The Fire Beneath the Banyan Tree
Part V: Beyond India
30. The Call of the Sea
31. Beyond the Black Waters, a Journey Begins
32. Blending in the Rainbow Nation
33. No Longer Welcome
34. Out of Africa
35. No Foreigners Are Living Here
36. In the Nation of Shopkeepers
37. Faith, Cotton, and Spices
38. In the Shopping Centre with Passport Controls
39. Chalo Dilli!
40. Kevi Rite Jaish? How Will You Get There?

41. Of Motels and Patels
42. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Part VI: The Way We Earn
43. Paiso Bole Chhe: Money Is Talking
44. The Pursuit of Lakshmi
45. Trust Matters
46. Nothing Is Impossible
47. In the National Interest
48. Is a Diamond Forever?
49. Enter the East India Man
Part XI: The Way We Play
50. Bits and Bytes
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51. Wealth beyond the Motorway
52. The Nation's Doodhwala
53. Vibrant Gujarat, or Is It Flagrant, Blatant, Belligerent, and Strident?
54. Scam Chho?
Part VII: The Way We Politick
Bibliography
55. Politics in the English Language
Index
56. The Making of the Mahatma
57. The Saint of Sabarmati
58. The Ambidextrous Gandhi
59. Will You Follow Gandhi's Footsteps, Gujarat?
60. Gandhi and Gujarati Women
61. Daughters of the Gandhian Revolution
62. Gujarat after Gandhi
63. Modifying the State, then the Nation
Part VIII: The Way We Create
64. A Town of Writers
65. Words That Comfort Us
66. When Our Women Talk
67. Being Modern
68. No Alcohol, No Politics, No Sex, Please;
We Are Gujaratis
69. Telling Our Stories
70. Dhollywood, Natak Nights, and Sugam Sangeet!
71. What We See and What We Paint
Part IX: The Way We Give, The Way We Pray
72. It Feels Good to Do Good
73. Good Men, Bad Men, Godmen, and Men of God
74. Jai Shri Swaminarayan!
Part X: The Way We Eat
75. Have Another Helping; Have Some More .. 76. Wht’s mine is mine, what’s your is my Father's
77. What's Food Without Taste?
78. No Meat, Please, We Are Gujarati ....
79. Jain Chicken on S. G. Road
80. But was in cricket?
81. Love, Sex, and Dhokla
82. When Women Love Women and Men Love Men
Part XII: The Way We Kill
83. Vegetarians Who Roast Humans
84. Godhra and Its Consequences
85. Welcome to Juhapura, Pakistan
86. What We Learned 87. Reasons for Hope