Cosmopolitan cultures and oceanic thought / edited by Dilip M. Menon and Nishat Zaidi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menon, Dilip M., editor.

Zaidi, Nishat, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ocean and civilization.

Indian Ocean Region--Civilization.

Indian Ocean Region.

Indian Ocean Region--History.

Indian Ocean Region--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : maps

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Dilip M. Menon is a historian and currently the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. South Africa. Nishat Zaidi is Professor and former Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Contents:

Going below the waterline : hydrocolonial methods, creolized water / Isabel Hofmeyr

Fellowship and aversion in the South : the challenges of South-South collaboration / Elleke Boehmer

Found in prison : the poetics of oceanic histories / Geeta Patel

Remembering the Bengal Delta : ca. 1450-1850 / Rila Mukherjee

"The wind sketches landscapes of words" : oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean / Kelsey McFaul

Padmabati of the oceans : unfreedom and belonging in Syed Alaol's Padmabati / Swati Moitra

Senses translated : Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean, circulation of texts and sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit cosmopoleis / Ihsan Ul Ihthisam

Of those on shore : the dhow trade and mobility in the Indian Ocean / Nidhi Mahajan

Towards an architecture of the Indian Ocean : mapping the syncretic grammar of coastal cities & architecture through Ibn Battuta's water journeys (1342-1347) / Iqtedar Alam

Through the eyes of the boat people : redefining oceans in the 21st century / Chrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod Balakrishnan

Literate illiterates : Arabi-Malayalam and parallel process of knowledge production among Muslims in Kerala / M.H.Ilias.

'Ulamā' networks across the seas : understanding the trajectory of Islam in Medieval Malabar / Mohammed Shameem K.K.

Encountering the 'other : pilgrims at sea and accounts of journeys to Hejaz in the age of oceanic mobility / Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil

Christianity, conversion and caste : reflecting on identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam writings in post-colonial India / Steven S. George

Rainbow waters : towards a queer coalition between India and Botswana / Kashish Dua.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 23, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Cosmopolitan cultures and oceanic thought

ISBN:

9781003300939

1003300936

9781000859416

100085941X

9781000859492

1000859495

Publisher Number:

99993428477

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