India in Africa, Africa in India Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms

". . . the essays in this volume on Indian Ocean slavery and the African settlements in India are a useful lens into the larger debates that surround this rapidly growing arena of scholarly study.Vol. 40.3 August 2009"-Gaurav Desai, Tulane University
"[A]dds to the growing literature on the Indian Ocean world . . . and cultural interpretations and representations of India and Africa in art, film, music, religion, and other intellectual and sociocultural activities. The text serves as a great introduction or 'crash course' because aspects of the volume serve as historiography of fiction and non-fiction literature about the Indian Ocean and its diasporas all over the globe. Vol. 44.2 2009"-Catherine Cymone Fourshey, Susquehanna University