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Belonging across the Bay of Bengal : religious rites, colonial migrations, national rights / edited by Michael Laffan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asia--History.
- South Asia.
- History.
- Southeast Asia--History.
- Southeast Asia.
- South Asia--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Southeast Asia--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Belonging across the Bay of Bengal discusses themes connecting the regions bordering the Bay of Bengal, mainly covering the period from the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries. Focusing on the notion of "belonging", it highlights themes of ethnicity, religion, culture, and the emergence of nationalist politics and state policies as they relate to the movement of peoples in the region. While the Indian Ocean has been of interest to scholars for decades, there has been a notable tilt towards historicizing the Western half of that space. Belonging across the Bay of Bengal enriches this story by drawing attention to Buddhist and migrant connectivities, introducing discussions of Lanka, Burma, and the Straits Settlements to establish the historical context of the current refugee crises playing out in these regions. This timely and innovative volume offers a fresh approach to Indian Ocean history and will be of great significance to all students and scholars of Indian Ocean studies as well as historians of modern South and Southeast Asia. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Dhows, steamers, lifeboats / Michael Laffan
- Buddhist networks across the Indian Ocean / Anne Blackburn
- Borobudur in the light of Asia / Marieke Bloembergen
- Keramats running amuck / Teren Sevea
- The second Sikh / Arjun Naidu
- Markets, mobility, and matrimony / Torsten Tschacher
- Transcultural intimacies in British Burma and the Straits Settlements / Chie Ikeya
- Citizens, Aryans, and Indians in colonial Lanka cosmopolitan hybridities / Nira Wickramasinghe
- Calling the other shore / Bhavani Raman
- Hybridity and indigeneity in Malaya / David Henley
- History in and of a penal colony / Clare Anderson
- Looking back on the Bay of Bengal / Michael Laffan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Contains:
- Container of: Blackburn, Anne M., 1967- Buddhist networks across the Indian Ocean.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Belonging across the Bay of Bengal.
- ISBN:
- 9781350022621
- 1350022624
- Publisher Number:
- 99976236365
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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