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Interviews with scholars of the Indian Ocean World about their new books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-ocean-world

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Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 18, 2024
Sasikumar Harikrishnan, "Social Spaces and the Public Sphere:: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala" (Routledge, 2023)
Nov 20, 2024
Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)
Nov 15, 2024
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Nov 13, 2024
Andrea Benvenuti, "Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 24, 2024
Sharad Chari, "Apartheid Remains" (Duke UP, 2024)
Oct 13, 2024
Arang Keshavarzian, "Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Jul 21, 2024
Jonathan Connolly, "Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jul 13, 2024
Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow, "A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jun 25, 2024
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 13, 2024
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil, "The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 01, 2024
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 26, 2024
Knut A. Jacobsen, "The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Diasporas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 22, 2024
Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 16, 2024
Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 14, 2024
Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 01, 2024
David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, "Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Dec 16, 2023
Abdul Galil Shaif, "South Yemen: Gateway to the World?" (Authorhouse UK, 2022)
Dec 12, 2023
Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020)
Dec 09, 2023
Fae Dussart, "In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 07, 2023
Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Sayan Dey, "Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Nov 27, 2023
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023
Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Sustainable Prosperity in the Arab Gulf: From Miracle to Method" (Routledge, 2023)
Nov 22, 2023
Laleh Khalili, "Corporeal Life of Seafaring" (MACK, 2023)
Nov 11, 2023
James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023
Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024)
Oct 02, 2023
Seema Alavi, "Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire" (India Allen Lane, 2023)
Sep 28, 2023
Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023
Stefan Helmreich, "A Book of Waves" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 16, 2023
Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Sep 13, 2023
Peter Good, "The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Sep 10, 2023
Divya Cherian, "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia" (2023)
Sep 09, 2023
Samson A. Bezabeh, "Djibouti: A Political History" (Lynne Rienner, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Alice Wilson, "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Aug 26, 2023
Lucia Carminati. "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 24, 2023
Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Aug 16, 2023
India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa
Jul 28, 2023
Steve Mentz, "An Introduction to the Blue Humanities" (Routledge, 2023)
Jul 27, 2023
Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jul 12, 2023
Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 08, 2023
Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)
Jul 02, 2023
Markus Virgil Höhne, "Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision" (Rift Valley Institute, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023
Marielle Risse, "Houseways in Southern Oman" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 15, 2023
Nicholas W. S. Smith, "Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 12, 2023
Rob Marchant, "East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jun 06, 2023
Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 29, 2023
Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne, "Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean" (Ohio UP, 2022)
May 27, 2023
Daniel Martin Varisco, "Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
May 23, 2023
Philip Gooding, "Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
May 22, 2023
Rila Mukherjee, "India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE" (Springer, 2022)
May 21, 2023
Dilip M. Menon and Nishat Zaidi, "Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought" (Routledge, 2023)
May 20, 2023
Nienke Boer, "The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 16, 2023
K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023
Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 16, 2023
M. Christhu Doss, "India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 12, 2023
Philip Gooding, "On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 07, 2023
Buddhist Responses to COVID: A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana
Feb 04, 2023
Shaping Civilisations: The Sea in Asian History
Jan 26, 2023
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
Dec 22, 2022
Off-Shore Aesthetics
Dec 16, 2022
Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Judith Misrahi-Barak, "Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India's Perspective" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 06, 2022
Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
Ravi Palat, "The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650" (Palgrave, 2015)
Sep 23, 2022
Yin Cao, "From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945" (Brill, 2017)
Jun 28, 2022
Amanda Phillips, "Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2021)
May 27, 2022
Juan-José Martín-González, "Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
May 25, 2022
Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 12, 2022
Isabel Hofmeyr, "Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 11, 2022
Shobana Shankar, "An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 29, 2022
Harry Verhoeven and Anatol Lieven, "Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 21, 2022
Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)
Apr 01, 2022
Mirjam Lücking, "Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims" (SAPP, 2021)
Oct 04, 2021
Gayatri Nair, "Set Adrift: Capitalist Transformations and Community Politics Along Mumbai's Shores" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2021
Ismail Fajrie Alatas, "What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 30, 2021
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, "Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, C. 1400-1650" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 23, 2021
John Wong, "Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
May 13, 2021
Anand A. Yang, "Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia" (U California Press, 2021)
Apr 08, 2021
Emily Callaci, "Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania" (Duke UP, 2017)
Apr 07, 2021
Arunima Datta, "Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 05, 2021
Smriti Srinivas et al., "Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 02, 2021
Nira Wickramasinghe, "Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Mar 03, 2021
Teren Sevea, "Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Feb 10, 2021
David Abulafia, "The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans" (Allen Lane, 2019)
Feb 10, 2021
Michael Christo Low, "Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 28, 2021
Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jan 25, 2021
Steven Serels, "The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945" (Palgrave, 2018)
Jan 11, 2021
Narrating Africa in South Asia
Dec 31, 2020
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Dec 28, 2020
Ronald C. Po, "The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Dec 24, 2020
B. Nicolini and S. de Silva Jayasuriya, "Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean" (Educatt, 2017)
Dec 21, 2020
M. Chaiklin and P. Gooding, "Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Dec 17, 2020
Steven Fabian, "Making Identity on the Swahili Coast: Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Dec 14, 2020
Antoinette Burton, "Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation" (Duke UP, 2016)
Dec 10, 2020
L. Benton and N. Perl-Rosenthal, "A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Dec 07, 2020
Anne K. Bang, "Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940): Ripples of Reform" (Brill, 2014)
Dec 03, 2020
Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales, "Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense" (Abbreviated Press, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020
J. E. Peterson, "The Emergence of the Gulf States: Studies in Modern History" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Nov 23, 2020
Ned Bertz, "Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Space in Tanzania" (U Hawaii Press, 2015)
Nov 19, 2020
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, "Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Nov 16, 2020
Anne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 12, 2020
Sujit Sivasundaram, "Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire" (William Collins, 2020)
Nov 12, 2020
Pedro Machado, "Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds" (Ohio UP, 2020)
Nov 09, 2020
Ian Foster, "Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
Nov 05, 2020
Sarah Longair, "Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964" (Routledge, 2015)
Nov 02, 2020
Eve M. Troutt Powell, "Tell This in my Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2013)
Oct 29, 2020
S. Wynne-Jones and A. LaViolette, "The Swahili World" (Routledge, 2017)
Oct 26, 2020
Wilson Chacko Jacob, "For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Oct 15, 2020
Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Space" (U California Press, 2016)
Oct 12, 2020
Matthew S. Hopper, "Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire” (Yale UP, 2015)
Oct 08, 2020
Prita Meier, "Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere" (Indiana UP, 2016)
Oct 05, 2020
E. A. Alpers and C. Goswami, "Transregional Trade and Traders" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Oct 01, 2020
Ronit Ricci, "Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 28, 2020
Chhaya Goswami, "Globalization Before Its Time: The Gujarati Merchants from Kachchh" (PRH India, 2016)
Sep 24, 2020
Debjani Bhattacharyya, "Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Sep 21, 2020
Omar H. Ali, "Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 17, 2020
Kris Alexanderson, "Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Sep 14, 2020
Thomas R. Metcalf, "Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920" (U California Press, 2008)
Sep 14, 2020
Sana Aiyar, "Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora" (Harvard UP, 2015)
Sep 10, 2020
Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Sep 07, 2020
Behnaz A. Mirzai, "A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929" (U Texas Press, 2017)
Sep 03, 2020
Nathalie Peutz, "Islands of Heritage Conservation and Transformation in Yemen" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Aug 31, 2020
Hideaki Suzuki, "Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean: Suppression and Resistance in the 19th Century" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Aug 27, 2020
Renisa Mawani, "Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)
Aug 24, 2020
Nancy Um, "Shipped but Not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade during Yemen’s Age of Coffee" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Aug 20, 2020
Pamila Gupta, "Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Aug 17, 2020
Ulrike Freitag, "A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 10, 2020
Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination" (Columbia UP, 2013)
Aug 03, 2020
Lakshmi Subramanian, "The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jul 27, 2020
Edward Alpers, "The Indian Ocean in World History" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jul 22, 2020