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Knowledge and the Indian Ocean : intangible networks of western India and beyond /

This volume examines western India's contributions to the spread of ideas, beliefs and other intangible ties across the Indian Ocean world. The region, particularly Gujarat and Bombay, is well-established in the Indian imaginary and in scholarlship as a mercantile hub. These essays move beyond...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Keller, Sara, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Series:Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies.
Subjects:
Indian Ocean Region > Intellectual life.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Sara Keller
  • Part I. Knowledge, Science and Techniques : 2. Places We Can Go: Some Notes of Sea/Knowledge / Sarah Bancroft
  • 3. Knowing the Sea: Thalassographies to Thalassology of the Indean Ocean (up to c. 1500 CE) / Ranabir Chakravarti
  • 4. A Chinese Muse in the Caliph's Court: The Influence of Chinese Ceramic Technology Across the Indian Ocean (Eighth to Fourteenth Century CE) / Rukshana Nanji
  • 5. Ava: A Living Tradition of Reverence for Water Among the Zoroastrians / Shernaz Cama
  • 6. Scholars in Gujarat's Bazaars: Revisiting L'académie ambulante ("The Roving Academy") / Sara Keller and Fernando Rosa
  • 7. Gujarat Ornamental Furniture: Artisans, Techniques, Skills and Global Markets During the Nineteenth Century / Louiza Rodrigues
  • 8. "Without a Counterpart on the Globe": Geographical Knowledge and the Mapping of "Kutch" in the Nineteenth Century / Mariam Dossal
  • Part II. Skills, Migration and Identities : 9. Gujarat Sufis, "Sants" and the Indian Ocean World to Medieval Times / Makrand Mehta
  • 10. Doing Well but Also Doing Good? East African Indian Merchants and Their Charitable Work, c. 1850-1920 / Margret Frenz
  • 11. Narratives of Transcendental Decision-Making: Seeking Health and Healing at Sufi Shrines in Gujarat / Helene Basu
  • 12. Voices of the Sidis: Indians of African Descent / Beheroze Shroff
  • 13. Linguistic and Cultural Contributions of Gujarat in Eastern Africa / Abdulaziz Yusuf Lodhi
  • 14. The Transnational Life and Political Philosophy of Shyamji Krishnavarma
  • Index.