Indian Ocean Studies

Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives

Shanti Moorthy, Ashraf Jamal, Shanti Moorthy, Ashraf Jamal

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780415648479
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135269029
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Indian & South Asian History
• Index: History

The Indian Ocean is famously referred to as the "cradle of globalization," as it facilitated cultural and economic exchanges between Africa, the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and China, for 5000 years prior to European presence in the region. As this ocean's significance has gained increasing attention from scholars in recent years, few have examined the 'human' dimensions in Indian Ocean exchanges. Including the work of historians, geographers, anthropologists and literary analysts, each essay in this volume addresses a specific human factor, such as the fate of the creole in the Bay of Bengal, creolization as a globalized phenomenon, migrancy and diaspora, the lives of seafarers then and now, and the lives of those who inhabit the ocean's littoral. This volume is a necessary addition to the field of Indian Ocean studies.

Table of contents

• Routledge Indian Ocean Series SERIES EDITORS: RUTH BARNES AND ZULFIKAR HIRJI
• Contents
• Figures
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Fabulation
• 3 The Indian Ocean and the Making of Outback Australia
• 4 Abdulrazak Gurnah and Littoral Cosmopolitanism
• 5 Destined to Disappear Without a Trace
• 6 Commerce, Circulation, and Consumption
• 7 Shared Hopes, New Worlds
• 8 “Signs of Wonder”
• 9 Kuo Pao Kun’s Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral and the Myth of Modern Singapore1
• 10 “That Great Ocean of Idealism”
• 11 “Is It the Same Sea As Back Home?”
• 12 Making Home on the Indian Ocean Rim
• 13 A Travelling Science
• 14 Whiteness in Golden Goa Linschoten on Phenotype
• 15 Power and Beliefs in Reunion Island
• 16 Through Magical Flowers
• 17 Black Bag
• 18 Telling and Selling on the Indian Ocean Rim
• 19 Post-Orientalism
• Contributors
• Index