Valuing and conserving our diverse heritage is an important endeavour for our presents and our futures. Recognising how certain aspects of heritage are prized over others, and how such imbalances can be mitigated are equally significant. In an adaptation of George Orwell's famous lines from his book, 1984, those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. Experiences and practices of discrimination and inequity in the current era has repercussions for whose, and which kind of heritage continues for future generations. Our vision is to develop and consolidate a UK-India network that highlights and deepens a framework of analysis that is conscious of social and institutional discrimination when it comes to valuing heritage. Our framework is informed by gender and intersectionality on Indian and Diasporic (GRID) heritage so as those people and practices discriminated along the intersecting lines of gender, caste, class and/or ethnicity along with their heritage work are fully appreciated, engaged and supported at the national and transnational level. We plan to consolidate the GRID Heritage network through the organising of two workshops, linked exhibitions and musical performances in New Delhi and London, a project website with an online exhibition of case studies and digitised archive along with other more long-term strategies. The network will include academics, researchers, curators, heritage practitioners, managers and other specialists in three main areas: (i) Craft: paintings, illustrations and three dimensional objects (co-ordinated by Parul Dave-Mukherji, Principal Investigator, India), (ii) Threads: embroidery and textiles (co-ordinated by Raminder Kaur, Principal Investigator, UK), (iii) Echoes: music and performance (co-ordinated by Navtej Purewal, Co-Investigator, UK). Each of these components will be developed by network participants, and supported by free public events in New Delhi and London to which the general public including local Asian, heritage, arts and youth groups will be invited. We encourage network participants to apply a gender and intersectionality lens to heritage issues and cases by asking the following questions: - How do we develop a context-specific understanding of gender and intersectionality as they apply to Indian and Diasporic heritage? In what ways have practitioners felt discrimination with respect to their identity and heritage? What are the implications of this for the individual and the community/ies with which they self-identify in changing contexts? - To what extent is the value assigned to forms of heritage used to include some groups and the devaluation of other forms of heritage used to exclude others? How are categories such as 'art' and 'craft', 'artisan' and 'artist' applied for work that draws upon an individual's heritage? - How do we make sense of heritage objects and practice located across diverse caste-class, religio-ethnic and regional contexts? How does this influence an understanding of their various homes, whether they be in India or in UK? - How can we use gender and intersectionality lenses to empower individuals and communities to build upon their heritage? - How can we place what might be off-the-grid or hidden heritage associated with marginalised people on a platform where they can be valued now and in the future? The network activities will lead to a project website with digitised case studies, visual and audio-visual recordings of public events, open access working papers, reports, a GRID Heritage roadmap including an executive summary to send to stakeholders, teaching material for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, interim and final network reports including a comprehensive evaluation report for participants' and partners' own networks. This final report will later inform the development of a firmer focus, aims, objectives and partners for further international research.