Needle at the Bottom of the Sea - Stewart, Tony K.
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"Access Bengal's secret heart through this wondrous book. Travel deep into the forest and peek beyond the delta's edge: balancing scholarly rigor with storytelling elan, Tony Stewart's tidal tales with their fantastic cast of boundary-crossing characters shed unexpected and much-needed light on the relationship between Bengal, Islam, and the Indian Ocean world."--Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Infosys Prize winner and author, Partition's Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971, and Modern South Asia "These subtly analyzed and beautifully translated tales represent a major accomplishment, revealing a sophisticated…mehr

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"Access Bengal's secret heart through this wondrous book. Travel deep into the forest and peek beyond the delta's edge: balancing scholarly rigor with storytelling elan, Tony Stewart's tidal tales with their fantastic cast of boundary-crossing characters shed unexpected and much-needed light on the relationship between Bengal, Islam, and the Indian Ocean world."--Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Infosys Prize winner and author, Partition's Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971, and Modern South Asia "These subtly analyzed and beautifully translated tales represent a major accomplishment, revealing a sophisticated understanding of interreligious and intercaste relations in the register of the marvelous."--Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford
Autorenporträt
Tony K. Stewart is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University and a specialist in the early modern literatures of the Bengali-speaking world. His most recent work is Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination, winner of the 2021 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.