From the archive record
Siddhis of Gujarat (originally from Sudan). These Sudanese originally came to India as labourers or salt workers, and have now become a part of their home state of Gujarat, living next to Gir National Park where the Asiatic Lion now lives (and nowhere else). The Siddhi people retain their Sudanese musical traditions, and as they rarely inter-marry, they also look very much like their Sudanese peers. Their music, however, has developed distinct Indian and Gujarati influences. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Be