Table of Content
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 (Leiden University, UK) 11. Looking Back on the Bay of Bengal: An African Isolate Reoriented, Michael Laffan (Princeton University, USA) Select Biblopgraphy Index