"This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants, and adventurers. The essays in this volume summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially connected history and maritime history, literature, and Global South studies"-- Provided by publisher

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Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), Oxford, 2023

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Abingdon, Oxon, 2023

New Delhi, 2023

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This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections
in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category
of ocean as method, it analyses the histories of movement and traversing across
connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local
histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of
people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence
felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent
histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the
movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants and adventurers.
Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
List of figures 9
List of contributors 10
Introduction: Oceanic Imagination and Cosmopolitan Cultures: Thinking Through History Across the Waters 12
PART I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism 32
1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolised Water 34
2. Fellowship and aversion in the South: The challenges of South–South collaboration 48
3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic Histories 58
4. Remembering the Bengal Delta ca. 1450–1850 74
5. “The wind sketches landscapes of words”: Reading the wind in the Horn of Africa 92
PART II: Oceanic Narratives 108
6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and belonging in Syed Alaol’s Padmabati 110
7. Pat.appa-t.t.us in the Indian Ocean: Connected Literary Sensibilities and the Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit Cosmopolises 126
PART III: Constructing Space 146
8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian Ocean 148
9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities and Architecture through Ibn Battuta’s Water Journeys (1342–47) 163
10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the twenty-first century 179
PART IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans 190
11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in Kerala 192
12. ʿUlama-ʾ Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval Malabar 208
13. Encountering the ‘Other’: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic Mobility 223
14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial India 251
15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and Botswana 263
Index 278
Introduction; 1 Going Below the Waterline; 2 Fellowship and aversion in the South; 3 Found in Prison; 4 Remembering the Bengal Delta ca. 1450–1850; 5 “The wind sketches landscapes of words”; 6 Padmabati of the Oceans; 7 Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean; 8 Of Those on Shore; 9 Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean; 10 Through the Eyes of the Boat People; 11 Literate Illiterates; 12 ʿUlamāʾ Networks across the Seas; 13 Encountering the ‘Other’; "14 Christianity,Conversion and Caste"; 15 Rainbow Waters
Introduction,1 Going Below the Waterline,2 Fellowship and aversion in the South,3 Found in Prison,4 Remembering the Bengal Delta ca. 1450–1850,5 “The wind sketches landscapes of words”,6 Padmabati of the Oceans,7 Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean,8 Of Those on Shore,9 Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean,10 Through the Eyes of the Boat People,11 Literate Illiterates,12 ʿUlamāʾ Networks across the Seas,13 Encountering the ‘Other’,14 Christianity, Conversion and Caste,15 Rainbow Waters

2023-03-16