Knowledge and the Indian Ocean : intangible networks of Western India and beyond, Sara Keller, Editor

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Knowledge and the Indian Ocean : intangible networks of Western India and beyond, Sara Keller, Editor

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intangible networks of Western India and beyond

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Sara Keller, Editor

Instantiates

• Knowledge and the Indian Ocean : intangible networks of Western India and beyond

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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• ©2019

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents

1. Introduction / Sara Keller -- Part I. Knowledge, Science and Techniques : 2. Places We Can Go: Some Notes of Sea/Knowledge / Sarah Bancroft -- 3. Knowing the Sea: Thalassographies to Thalassology of the Indean Ocean (up to c. 1500 CE) / Ranabir Chakravarti -- 4. A Chinese Muse in the Caliph's Court: The Influence of Chinese Ceramic Technology Across the Indian Ocean (Eighth to Fourteenth Century CE) / Rukshana Nanji -- 5. Ava: A Living Tradition of Reverence for Water Among the Zoroastrians / Shernaz Cama -- 6. Scholars in Gujarat's Bazaars: Revisiting L'académie ambulante ("The Roving Academy") / Sara Keller and Fernando Rosa -- 7. Gujarat Ornamental Furniture: Artisans, Techniques, Skills and Global Markets During the Nineteenth Century / Louiza Rodrigues -- 8. "Without a Counterpart on the Globe": Geographical Knowledge and the Mapping of "Kutch" in the Nineteenth Century / Mariam Dossal -- Part II. Skills, Migration and Identities : 9. Gujarat Sufis, "Sants" and the Indian Ocean World to Medieval Times / Makrand Mehta -- 10. Doing Well but Also Doing Good? East African Indian Merchants and Their Charitable Work, c. 1850-1920 / Margret Frenz -- 11. Narratives of Transcendental Decision-Making: Seeking Health and Healing at Sufi Shrines in Gujarat / Helene Basu -- 12. Voices of the Sidis: Indians of African Descent / Beheroze Shroff -- 13. Linguistic and Cultural Contributions of Gujarat in Eastern Africa / Abdulaziz Yusuf Lodhi -- 14. The Transnational Life and Political Philosophy of Shyamji Krishnavarma -- Index

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1042075718

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23 cm

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xli, 266 pages

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9783319968384

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2018949832

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• n

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illustrations (some color)

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.b54462022

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(OCoLC)1042075718