A familiar sight in the area I live in, Central Calcutta, are Bohra families dressed in their distinctive robes, keeping very much to themselves as they carry on with their busy lives. Despite the fact that some of the biggest shops and showrooms of the area are owned by them, their lives and thoughts have always stayed an enigma to me. When I decided to research on this intriguing subject, I immediately faced a block. There is very little secondary material in the libraries on the Bohra community per se and the few books that are available are on the community in Gujarat and Rajasthan. There is none on the Calcutta Bohras. This is because none of the leading Bohras of Calcutta have left any account of their migration to the city or on their work here. I began by conducting interviews with some of the leading members of their society to understand the basic features of the community and their beliefs. They candidly admit that there is very little written documentation on the Bohras of Calcutta in English and whatever there is, is in Gujarati or in Lisaan-ud-Dawat which is their religious language – Deen-i-Zabaan. Thereafter I concentrated on circulating questionnaires within the community to get a broader view. My aim in this chapter is to bring into focus the distinctiveness of the culture and also show that there is no dichotomy within them between their ‘modernity’, a term by which they mean ‘use of advanced technology’, and their deep religiosity.