Indian Ocean

The New Frontier
Herausgeber: Azam, Kousar J

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The present volume engages with the oceanic turn in different fields of knowledge to project the Indian Ocean as the new frontier of research across various disciplines. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780367354695
• ISBN-10: 0367354691
• Artikelnr.: 57048433

Autorenporträt

Kousar J. Azam is Professor Emeritus, and former Head Department of Political Science at Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Oceanic Reach 1. Inaugural Address 2. Cultural Dynamics in the
Indian Ocean in the Past and the Future 3. Indian Ocean after the End of
the Cold War: Emerging Dimensions of a Fascinating Region 4. The Centrality
of the IOR to India's Being 5. India and the Indian Ocean: Old Concerns,
New Perspectives   II. Literature and Culture 6. From the Indian Ocean to
the Pacific: Missionary Summer Resorts in Asia 7. The Different Destinies
of the Indian Diaspora in the Mascarene Islands   8. Epic Writing in
Diasporic Mauritian Literature in English with a Focus on Tsang Man Kin's
The Hakka Epic and Lampotang's The Coral Heart 9. Amitav Ghosh, Indian
Ocean and the New Thalassology 10. The Hyperreal Waters of Sea of Poppies:
New Perspectives in Reading Ghosh's Fiction 11. The Emergence of Cricket as
an Indian Ocean Game  III. Of Roots and Routes 12. The Muziris: An Ancient
City of Global Village 13. Islamicate World System and South Indian Muslim
Trading Networks in the Medieval Indian Ocean History 14. Indian Diaspora
in the Francophone African Littoral States of Western Indian Ocean: 
Sources of India's Soft Power in its Foreign Policy 15. Linguistic
Communities and New Historiography: Constructing a Maritime Tradition in
Colonial Odisha 16. Bangladesh: Striving towards a Zone of Peace and
Prosperity in the Indian Ocean Region IV. The Power Games 17. The Renewed
Geostrategic Significance of the Indian Ocean Small Islands 18. India,
China and the US in the Indian Ocean: A Strategic Triangle to Counter
Piracy? 19. The Evolving Power Dynamics of the Indian Ocean Region:
India-China-US: Conflict or Cooperation? 20. India's Stature in the Indian
Ocean: Emerging 'Power' with a Human Face 21. Collective Diplomacy: India's
Role in Indian Ocean Power Dynamics 22. Indian Ocean Warming: Its Extent
and Impact on the Monsoon and Marine Productivity