Monsoon Voyagers
eBook - PDF

Monsoon Voyagers

An Indian Ocean History

  1. 388 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Monsoon Voyagers

An Indian Ocean History

About this book

Monsoon Voyagers follows the voyage of a single dhow, the Crooked, along with its captain and crew, from Kuwait to port cities around the Persian Gulf and Western Indian Ocean, from 1924 to 1925. Through his account of the voyage, Fahad Ahmad Bishara unpacks a much broader history of circulation and exchange across the Arabian Sea in the time of empire. From their offices in India, Arabia, and East Africa, Gulf merchants used the technologies of colonial capitalism—banks, steamships, railroads, telegraphs, and more—to remake their own regional bazaar economy. In the process, they remade the Gulf itself. Drawing on the Crooked's first-person logbooks, along with letters, notes, and business accounts from a range of port cities, Monsoon Voyagers narrates the still-untold connected histories of the Gulf and Indian Ocean. The Gulf's past, it suggests, played out across the sea as much as it did the land.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Prologue: The Logbook
  7. 1. Kuwait
  8. Inscription: Debts
  9. 2. The Shatt Al-ʿArab
  10. Inscription: Freightage
  11. 3. The Gulf
  12. Inscription: Passage
  13. 4. The Sea of Oman
  14. Inscription: Guides
  15. 5. Karachi to Kathiawar
  16. Inscription: Letters
  17. 6. Bombay
  18. Inscription: Transfers
  19. 7. Malabar
  20. Inscription: Conversions
  21. 8. Crossings
  22. Inscription: Maps
  23. 9. Muscat
  24. Inscription: Poems
  25. 10. Bahrain
  26. Inscription: Accounts
  27. 11. Returns
  28. Epilogue: Triumph and Loss
  29. Notes
  30. Bibliography
  31. Index