1st Edition
Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime
Preface
Acknowledgement
1 Oceanic Histories: from the Terrestrial to the Maritime
Dilip M. Menon
2 Thinking With the Ocean: a Quartet of Conversations
Saarah Jappie
3 Oceanic Encounters With the “Other” in the Age of Empire: late-Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts of Indian Muslims
Nishat Zaidi
4 Indians in South Africa Before Indenture: a Story of Deep Oceanic Connections
Simi Malhotra
Index
Biography
Dilip M Menon is the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, and Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa. He was recently awarded the 2021 Falling Walls Foundation Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities.
Nishat Zaidi is Professor at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Simi Malhotra is Professor and Head of the Department at the Department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi. Her latest publications are the edited books Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation, and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges, 2021 and Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization again in 2021.
Saarah Jappie is Program Officer, Social Science Research Council, New York, USA, and Research Associate, Visual Arts in Identity and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
