This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, local histories, music and performance.
This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, local histories, music and performance.
Dilip M. Menon is a historian and currently the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. South Africa. Nishat Zaidi is Professor and former Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
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Note on Contributors Introduction Nishat Zaidi and Dilip Menon Section I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism 1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolized Water Isabel Hofmeyr 2.Fellowship and Aversion in the South: The Challenges of South-South Collaboration Elleke Boehmer 3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic Histories Geeta Patel 4. Remembering the Bengal Delta: ca. 1450-1850 Rila Mukherjee 5. "The wind sketches landscapes of words": Oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean" Kelsey McFaul Section II: Oceanic Narratives 6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and Belonging in Syed Alaol's Padmabati Swati Moitra 7. Senses Translated: Päapp us in the Indian Ocean, Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit Cosmopoleis Ihsan Ul Ihthisam Section III: Constructing Space 8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian Ocean Nidhi Mahajan 9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities & Architecture through Ibn Battuta's Water Journeys (1342-1347) Iqtedar Alam 10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the 21st century Chrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod Balakrishnan Section IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans 11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in Kerala M.H.Ilias. 12. Ulam Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval Malabar Mohammed Shameem K. K. 13. Encountering the 'Other: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic Mobility Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil 14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial India Steven S. George 15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and Botswana Kashish Dua Index
Note on Contributors Introduction Nishat Zaidi and Dilip Menon Section I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism 1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolized Water Isabel Hofmeyr 2.Fellowship and Aversion in the South: The Challenges of South-South Collaboration Elleke Boehmer 3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic Histories Geeta Patel 4. Remembering the Bengal Delta: ca. 1450-1850 Rila Mukherjee 5. "The wind sketches landscapes of words": Oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean" Kelsey McFaul Section II: Oceanic Narratives 6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and Belonging in Syed Alaol's Padmabati Swati Moitra 7. Senses Translated: Päapp us in the Indian Ocean, Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit Cosmopoleis Ihsan Ul Ihthisam Section III: Constructing Space 8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian Ocean Nidhi Mahajan 9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities & Architecture through Ibn Battuta's Water Journeys (1342-1347) Iqtedar Alam 10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the 21st century Chrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod Balakrishnan Section IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans 11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in Kerala M.H.Ilias. 12. Ulam Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval Malabar Mohammed Shameem K. K. 13. Encountering the 'Other: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic Mobility Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil 14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial India Steven S. George 15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and Botswana Kashish Dua Index
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