Indian Ocean Imaginings

Joshua Esler; Mark Fielding

doi:10.5771/9781666922172

Summary

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from the disciplines of history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. From the earliest exchanges through Sumerian and Harappan trade, to emerging geopolitical alliances in the twenty-first century, this volume demonstrates both the continuity and change of the region as well as its unity and diversity. The expanse of this ocean and its littoral rim is connected through the social imaginary, which enables these processes. It is with the stories of the peoples inhabiting this rim that this book is concerned—told both through micro studies of the everyday lives of the region’s people and through macro studies centered around civilizations, empires, nation-states, and climate change.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2216-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2217-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 268
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. List of Tables No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. New Regionalism and Shifting Paradigms No access
  3. Porous Boundaries and Mental Remapping No access
  4. Indian Ocean Spatial Narratives No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Space No access
  2. Time No access
  3. People No access
  4. Merchants No access
  5. Missionaries No access
  6. Migrants No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. The Omani-Zanzibari Maritime State No access
  2. From Bombay to New York, From Zanzibar to London No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Tamil Muslims Merchants in the Indian Ocean, c. Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries No access
  3. EIC and the Establishment of Penang No access
  4. Penang and Tamil Muslim Merchants No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. The Local Ocean Phase (loci oceanum) 90000 BCE to 3300 BCE No access
  2. The Open Ocean Phase (aperta oceanum) 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE No access
  3. The Regional Ocean Phase (nostrum oceanum) 1200 BCE to 500 BCE No access
  4. Imperial Ocean Phase (imperium oceanum) 500 BCE to 300 CE No access
  5. The Transition Phase (mutatio oceanum) 300 CE to 1000 CE No access
  6. The Indian Ocean Phase (Indicum oceanum) 1000 CE to 1500 CE No access
  7. The Contested Ocean Phase (pugnatum oceanum) 1500 CE to 1800 CE No access
  8. The Colonial Ocean Phase (a mare liberum) 1800 CE to 1950 CE No access
  9. The Global Ocean Phase (a mare territorio) 1950 CE to Present No access
  10. Themes No access
  11. Conclusion No access
  12. Notes No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Rise and Fall of the Portuguese Seaborne Empire No access
  3. The Portuguese Colonization in South East Asia No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
5. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Literature Review No access
  3. Methodology No access
  4. Results No access
  5. Ramifications for Indian Ocean Studies No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Race for Maritime Dominance in the Indo-Pacific No access
  3. The Growing Contention in the Region No access
  4. India’s Balancing and Engagement Tactics through Island Strategy in the Region No access
  5. Japan’s Island Disputes and Maritime Cooperation No access
  6. The United States’ Island Strategy in the Indo-Pacific No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
2. 1. From Cables of Empire to Fiber-Optic Interdependence No access
  2. Discourses, Theories, Sources, and Methods No access
  3. Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) No access
  4. SubCom No access
  5. Nippon Electric Company (NEC) No access
  6. HMN Technologies No access
  7. PEACE and US globalism, Don’t Mention the Wars No access
  8. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Colonial Climates? Source Types for Historical Rainfall Reconstruction No access
  3. Methodologies: Standardizing Documentary Evidence for Climate Reconstruction No access
  4. A Chronology of Droughts in the Indian Ocean Zone, 1550–1830 No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Bengal Delta and Ecotone No access
  3. Colonial Property Rights in the Delta: Fashioning Hard Borders/Edges No access
  4. Exploring Bonbibi Johurnama No access
  5. The Cult of Bonbibi No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Changing Cultural Landscape No access
  3. “Shared Sacred Spaces” No access
  4. “Colonial Communities” No access
  5. Portuguese Burghers No access
  6. Afro-Sri Lankans No access
  7. Sri Lanka Malays No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Chinese Immigration and Migration to and within Lombok No access
  3. Religion on Lombok No access
  4. The Chinese and Islam on Lombok No access
  5. The History of Buddhism on Lombok No access
  6. Religious Syncretism No access
  7. Folk Buddhism as a Result of Religious Syncretism No access
  8. The Chinese and Religious Syncretism No access
  9. Indonesian Chinese Folk Buddhism No access
  10. The Pho Hwa Kong Klenteng Ampenan No access
  11. Conclusion No access
  12. Notes No access
Index No access Pages 255 - 264
About the Contributors No access Pages 265 - 268