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The history of a place, no matter how small, cannot be understood without appreciating the connections ―visible or invisible; random or methodical; haphazard or systematic―it forges with other places across time and space. Once these connections become consistent and durable, they transform into connectivities. Rethinking Connectivity: Region, Place and Space in Asia urges us to look not just for connections but also connectivities. Starting with cases of highly ...
Beyond National Frames: South Asian Pasts and the World advocates re-orienting our vision that has so far seen South Asia as a tightly circumscribed space. Envisioning a mobile South Asia flowing beyond its geographical confines, this volume of essays showcases a history transcending present borders of both land and sea resulting in a truly connected transnational history of Asia and the Indian Ocean world.
Recommending a shift from the conventional region or ...
Vanguards of Globalization: Port-Cities from the Classical to the Modern looks at the historical evolution of port-cities from emporion to gateway and interrogates their nature over time. This volume studies specific port-cities such as Barbarikon, Chaul, Porto Novo, Madras, Nagasaki, and Sitangkai, and more generally the ports around the Erythraean Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, Portuguese, Andhra, Bengal and Vietnamese coasts. In doing so, the ...
Convergence: Rethinking Indias Past explores the multiplicity of sources that can be used for studying Indian history. Texts, literature, inscriptions, and other sources have long been but the fountainheads of history. The contributors to this volume, however, begin with the premise that such sources, in the true spirit of historical research, need to be re-interrogated. Without ignoring questions of the validity of a source, they also emphasize the hybridity and ...
The volume examines how seas and oceans connect geographically as also through networks of trade, cooperation, beliefs, scientific knowledge and rumour. It emphasises open spaces rather than land boundaries and thus decolonises regional history and accentuates the difference between marine and maritime worlds. Focusing on the Pacific, Atlantic and the Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, it calls for a re-conceptualisation of maritime history. ...