In the wake of the covid 19 pandemic, Hindu communities in Greater Lisbon have developed strategies to keep in close contact, intensifying their activities through digital platforms. These channels were essential to maintain networks of solidarity but also the transmission of knowledge, cultural and religious elements that are part of the heritage of these groups with origins in India. This paper aims to explore what changes have persisted since the pandemic crisis, as social media and digital platforms remain active in the transmission of live rituals, devotional chants, food workshops, dance performances, and yoga classes. These contents convey cultural legacies and forms of knowledge which comprise the migrant heritage (Innocenti 2014) of these "communities of practice", circulating through digital technologies. From ethnographic research among a group of Portuguese Hindu-Gujaratis and their diverse and complex heritage, this paper focuses on the process of digital transmission of cultural and religious migrant heritage as something that links individuals and their communities to an origin - more or less distant - but also includes them in the processes of intersection with the surrounding society. From a methodological perspective, I also intend to reflect on the need to adapt to new forms of collecting and sharing information, of maintaining contacts and on innovative ways of doing ethnography, increasingly directed towards the digital field.

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Covid19,Hindu migrants,religion