Abstract
Despite being dismissed by certain brahmanised sectors of the Hindu diaspora, the idioms through which Hindu women construct their own selves and the alternative conceptions of the social world that they transmit have contributed significantly to the success of their families in migratory contexts in terms of identity. Taking the Hindu diaspora within the Portuguese-speaking space as a case study, we hope to show how the women's expressive traditions constituted a contra-ethnicising logic which helped to consolidate the position of the ethnic minority of traders formed by the Hindu-Gujarati population settled in Mozambique during the colonial period.In the two main post-colonial migratory contexts, Portugal and England, these traditions continue to provide emerging generations with significant resources for the redefinition of relations between “self” and “other” and for the renegotiation of intra- or inter-ethnic power dynamics.
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