Belonging across the Bay of Bengal (eBook, ePUB)

Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights
Redaktion: Laffan, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Belonging across the Bay of Bengal discusses themes connecting the regions bordering the Bay of Bengal, mainly covering the period from the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries - a crucial period of transition from colonialism to independence. Focusing on the notion of 'belonging', the chapters in this collection highlight themes of ethnicity, religion, culture and the emergence of nationalist politics and state policies as they relate to the movement of peoples in the region. While the Indian Ocean has been of interest to scholars for decades, there has been a notable tilt towards historicizing the Western half of that space, often prioritizing Islamic trade as the key connective glue prior to the rise of Western power and the later emergence of transnational Indian nationalism. Belonging across the Bay of Bengal enriches this story by drawing attention to Buddhist and migrant connectivities, introducing discussions of Lanka, Burma and the Straits Settlements to establish the historical context of the current refugee crises playing out in these regions. This is a timely and innovative volume that offers a fresh approach to Indian Ocean history, further enriching our understanding of the current debates over minority rights and refugee problems in the region. It will be of great significance to all students and scholars of Indian Ocean studies as well as historians of modern South and Southeast Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350022621
• Artikelnr.: 49270877

Autorenporträt

Michael Laffan is Professor of History at Princeton University, USA. He has worked on histories of Islam and colonialism with specific reference to Indonesians and their relationship with the Middle East. He is the author of Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia (2003) and The Makings of Indonesian Islam (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Dhows
Steamers
Lifeboats Michael Laffan (Princeton University
USA) Part One: Sacred Itineraries
Indian Bodies 1. Buddhist Networks across the Indian Ocean: Trans-Regional Strategies and Affiliations
Anne Blackburn (Cornell University
USA) 2. Borobudur in the Light of Asia: Scholars
Pilgrims
and Knowledge Networks of Greater India
Marieke Bloembergen (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
Leiden
Netherlands) 3. Keramats Running Amuck: Islamic Parahistories of Travel
Belonging
Crimes
and Madness
Terenjit Sevea (University of Pennsylvania
USA) 4. The Second Sikh: Exile
Panic
and Memory in the Straits Settlement
Arjun Naidu (Leiden University
Netherlands) Part Two: Merchants
Migrations
Rights 5. "Money-Making Is Their Prime Concern": Markets
Mobility
and Matrimony among South Indian Muslims in Colonial Southeast Asia Torsten Tschacher (Free University of Berlin
Germany) 6. Transcultural Intimacies in British Burma and the Straits Settlements: A History of Belonging
Difference
and Empire
Chie Ikeya (Rutgers University
USA) 7. Citizens
Aryans and Indians in Colonial Lanka: Discourses on Belonging in the 1920s-1930s
Nira Wickramasinghe (Leiden University
Netherlands) Part Three: Hybridities Betwixt and Beyond 8. Calling the Other Shore: Tamil Studies and Decolonization
Bhavani Raman (University of Toronto
Canada) 9. Hybridity and Indigeneity in Malaya
1900-70
David Henley (Leiden University
Netherlands) 10. History in and of a Penal Colony in the Bay of Bengal: Two Convict Mazars in the Andaman Islands
Clare Anderson (Leicester University
UK) 11. Looking Back on the Bay of Bengal: An African Isolate Reoriented
Michael Laffan (Princeton University
USA) Select Biblopgraphy Index