Moorings : Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahajan, Nidhi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seafaring life--Indian Ocean.

Seafaring life.

Merchant mariners--Indian Ocean--Social conditions.

Merchant mariners.

Dhows--Economic aspects--Indian Ocean.

Dhows.

Muslims--Indian Ocean--Social conditions.

Muslims.

Capitalism--Indian Ocean Region--History.

Capitalism.

Indian Ocean--Commerce--History.

Indian Ocean.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Moorings follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the Indian Ocean on mechanized wooden sailing vessels known as vahans, or dhows. These voyages produce capital through moorings that are spatial, moral, material, and conceptual. With a view from the dhow, the book examines the social worlds of Muslim seafarers who have been rendered invisible even as they maneuver multiple regulatory regimes and the exigencies of life, navigating colonialism, neoliberalism, the rise of Hindutva, insurgency, climate change, and border regimes across the ocean. Based on historical and ethnographic research aboard ships, at ports, and in religious shrines and homes, Moorings shows how capitalism derives value from historically sedimented practices grounded in caste, gender, and transregional community-based forms of regulation.

Contents:

Cover

Imprint

Subvention

Title

Contents

Illustrations

Note on Language

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Moorings and Voyages

1. Strangers on Shore

Interlude: Dispatches from the Shadows

2. Dhow Itineraries

Interlude: Habibi, Come to Dubai

3. A Burning Sea

Interlude: Mausam-At Sea

4. Of Sailors and Sufis

Interlude: Aakhar-At Home

5. Those Who Stay

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-41352-0

OCLC:

1485652453