The Indian Ocean as a Visionary Area: A Preliminary Bibliography

Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 1998

Broadman, H. Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier (World Bank: Washington, 2006).

Burawoy, Michael et al. (eds). Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Faist, Thomas. The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.

Folke Frederiksen, Bodil and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen. Beyond Home and Exile: Making Sense of Lives on the Move. Roskilde: International Development Studies, 2002.

Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”. In: Calhoun, Craig (ed.). Habermas and the Public Sphere. 109-142. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.

Glick Schiller, Nina. “Transnationality.” In: Nugent, David and Joan Vincent (eds). A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. London: Verso, 1993.

Gupta, Akhil, and James Ferguson, 1997, ‘Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference’, In: Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson (eds). Culture, Power, Place. Explorations in Critical Anthropology: 33-52 Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Hopkins, A.G. (ed.), Globalization in World History. London: Pimlico, 2002.

Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Touchstone, 1996.

Kaarsholm, Preben and Isabel Hofmeyr (eds). Popular Cultural Materials and Public Spheres. Special issue of Current Writing 18 (2). 2006.

Kaarsholm, Preben and Isabel Hofmeyr (eds), The Popular and the Public: Cultural Debates and Struggles over Public Space in Modern India, Africa and Europe. Forthcoming: London and Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2008.

Lewis, Bernard. What Went Wrong? The Clash of Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. London: Verso, 2000.

Manger, Leif and Munzoul A. M. Assal (eds). Diasporas within and without Africa: Dynamism, Heterogeneity, Variation. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2006.

Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.

Rediker, Marcus. Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Roy, Olivier. Globalised Islam: the Search for a New Ummah. New Delhi: Rupah& Co., 2005.

Segal, Ronald. Islam’s Black Slaves: A History of Africa’s Other Black Diaspora. London: Atlantic Books, 2001.

Sen, Amartya. Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny. London: Allen Lane. 2006.

Smith, Michael Peter and Luiz Guarnizo (eds). Transnationalism from Below. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998.

General Histories of the Indian Ocean

Bose, Sugata. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in an Age of Global Imperialism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Das Gupta, Ashin. India and the Indian Ocean World: Trade and Politics. 2 books: Malabar in Asian Trade 1740-1800 (first published 1967) and Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat c. 1700-1750 (first published 1979). New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Hall, Richard. Empires of the Monsoon: A History of the Indian and its Invaders. London: Harpercollins, 1996.

Kearney, Milo. The Indian Ocean in World History. London: Routledge, 2004.

McPherson, Kenneth. The Indian Ocean: A History of People and the Sea. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Pearson, MN. The Indian Ocean. London: Routledge, 2003.

Toussaint, Auguste. History of the Indian Ocean. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966.

Verges, Francoi_e. “Writing on Water: Peripheries, Flows, Capital, and Struggles in the Indian Ocean.” positions: east asia cultures critique 11 (1) 2003: 241-257.

African Migration to South Asia

Ali, Shanti Sadiq. The African Dispersal in the Deccan: From Medieval to Modern Times. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1995. Campbell, Gywn. (ed). The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. Edited by Gwyn Campbell. London: Frank Cass, 2004.

Jayasuriya, Shihan de S and Richard Pankhurst, “On the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean.” In Jayasuriya and Pankhurst: 1-17.

Jayasuriya, Shihan de S and Richard Pankhurst. Eds. The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2003.

Segal, Ronald. Islam’s Black Slaves: A History of Africa’s Other Black Diaspora. London: Atlantic Books, 2001.

Indian Ocean Slavery

Campbell, Gywn. (ed). The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. Edited by Gwyn Campbell. London: Frank Cass, 2004.

Segal, Ronald. Islam’s Black Slaves: A History of Africa’s Other Black Diaspora. London: Atlantic Books, 2001.

Trade and Religion in the Indian Ocean World

Alpers, Edward A. “Gujarat and the Trade of East Africa, c. 1500-1800.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 9 (1) 1976: 22-44.

Alpers, Edward A. Ivory and Slave in East Central Africa: Changing Patterns of International Trade in the Later Nineteenth Century. London: Heinemann, 1975.

Bang, Anne K. Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925. London: Routledge-Curzon, 2003.

Fattah, Hala. “Islamic Universalism and the Construction of Regional Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Basra: Sheikh Ibrahim al-Haidari’s Book Revisited.” In Fawaz and Bayly: 112-29.

Fawaz, Leila Tarazi and C.A. Bayly. Eds. Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002: 112-29.

Glassman, Jonathan. Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888. London: J Currey, 1994.

Manger, Leif. Islamic Diversity: Local Islam in a Global Context. London: Curzon Press, 1999.

Markovits, Claude. The Global World of Indian Merchants 1750-1947. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Ray, Rajat Kanta. “Asian Capital in the Age of European Domination: the Rise of the Bazaar, 1800-1914.” Modern Asian Studies 29 (3) 1995: 449-554.

Risso, Patricia. Merchants and Faith: Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.

Simonsen, Jørgen Bæk. Islam in a Changing World. London: Curzon, 1997.

Vahed, Goolam and Shamil Jeppie. “Multiple Communities: Muslims in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” In: Daniel, John, Roger Southall and Jessica Lutchman (eds). State of the Nation: South Africa 2004-2005. Cape Town: HSRC Press., 2005

Van der Veer, Peter. Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001

Colonial Labour Migration in the Indian Ocean

Anderson, Clare. “The Ferringees are Flying – The Ship is Ours!”: The Convict Middle Passage in Colonial South and Southeast Asia, 1790-1860.” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 42 (2) 2005: 143-86.

Balachandran, G. “Circulation through Seafaring: Indian Seamen, 1890-1945.” In Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia 1750-1950. Edited by Claude Markovits, Jacques Pouchepadass and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003: 89-130.

Carter, Marina. Voices from Indenture: Experiences of Indian Migrants in the British Empire. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1996.

Ewald, Janet J. “Crossers of the Sea: Slaves, Freedmen, and Other Migrants in the Northwestern Indian Ocean, c. 1750–1914.” American Historical Review 105 2000: 69-92.

Klaaren, Jonathan. Migrating to Citizenship: Mobility, Law, and Nationality in South Africa, 1897-1937. Ph D Thesis: Yale University: 2004.

Northrup, David. Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism: 1834-1922. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Tinker, Hugh. A New System of Slavery: The Export of Indian Labour Overseas, 1830-1921. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Indian Diasporic Histories

Bhana, Surendra and Joy Brain. Setting Down Roots: Indian Migrants in South Africa, 1860-1911. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 1990.

Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma. Gandhi’s Prisoner? The Life of Gandhi’s Son Manilal. Cape Town: Kwela, 2004.

Freund, Bill. Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban, 1910-1990. London: James Currey, 1995.

Gregory, Robert G. India and East Africa: A History of Race Relations within the British Empire, 1890-1939. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

Raman, Parvathi. “Yusuf Dadoo: Transnational Politics, South African Belonging.” South African Historical Journal 50 2004: 27-48.

Singh, Anand. Indians in Post-Apartheid South Africa. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Co. 2005.

Cultural Exchange in the Indian Ocean

Carter, Marina and Khal Torabully. Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora. London: Anthem Press, 2002.

Chetty, Rajendra. (ed). South African Indian Writings in English. Durban: Madiba, 2002.

Jaganath, Vashna. “The Politics of Urban Segregation and Indian Cinema in Durban”. In: Preben Kaarsholm (ed.). City Flicks: Indian Cinema and the Urban Experience. Calcutta and London: Seagull Books, [2004] 2007.

Kaur, Raminder and Ajay J Sinha (eds). Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens. London: Sage, 2005.

Ojwang, Dan Odhiambo. ‘Writing Migrancy and Ethnicity: The Politics of Identity in East African Indian Literature’. PhD Thesis: University of the Witwatesrand, 2004.

Van der Veer, Peter. Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in South Asian Diaspora. Seattle: University of Washington Press.