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Imagining Asia(s)
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This volume advances the question as to what Asia is, and as to whether there existed one or many Asia(s). It seeks to explore Asian societies as interconnected formations through trajectories/networks of circulation of people, ideas, and objects in the longue duree. Moving beyond the divides of Area Studies scholarship and the arbitrary borders set by late colonial empires and the rise of post-colonial nation-states, this volume maps critically the configuration of contact zones in which mobile bodies, minds, and cultures interact to foster new images, identities, and imaginations of Asia.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- About the Contributors
- Introduction by Andrea Acri, Kashshaf Ghani, Murari K. Jha and Sraman Mukherjee
- Part I: Conceptualizing the Region: Past and Present
- 1. Locating Asia, Arresting Asia: Grappling with âthe Epistemology That Killsâ by Farish A. Noor
- 2. Imagining âMaritime Asiaâ by Andrea Acri
- 3. In Search of an Asian Vision: The Asian Relations Conference of 1947 by Gopa Sabharwal
- Part II: Conceptualizing Asia through the Prism of Europe
- 4. In Pursuit of Knowledge from Asia: François Valentijn on the Hindu Social Divisions in the Coromandel Region, c. SeventeenthâEighteenth Century by Murari K. Jha
- 5. British Romantic Poetics and the Idea of Asia by Anjana Sharma
- Part III: Networks of Knowledge Across the Indian Ocean
- 6. An Indian Ocean RibÄáš: War and Religion in Sixteenth-Century PonnÄni, Malabar Coast by Mahmood Kooria
- 7. Travelling Spirits: Revisiting Melakaâs Keramat from the Indian Ocean by Fernando Rosa
- Part IV: Histories and Geographies of Pilgrimage in Asia
- 8. Transmissions, Translations, Reconstitutions: Revisiting Geographies of Buddha Relics in the Southern Asian Worlds by Sraman Mukherjee
- 9. The Politics of Pilgrimage: Reception of Hajj among South Asian Muslims by Kashshaf Ghani
- Part V: Trans-Local Dynamics and Intra-Asian Connections across Space and Time
- 10. Sanskritic Buddhism as an Asian Universalism by Iain Sinclair
- 11. Interconnectedness and Mobility in the Middle Ages/Nowadays: From Baghdad to Changâan and from Istanbul to Tokyo by Federica A. Broilo
- 12. Connecting Networks and Orienting Space: Relocating Nguyen Cochinchina between East and Southeast Asiain the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Vu Duc Liem
- 13. The Highlands of West Sumatra and Their Maritime Trading Connections by Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz
- Index