Knowledge and the Indian Ocean

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Places We Can Go: Some Notes on Sea/Knowledge

Chapter 3 Knowing the Sea: Thalassographies to Thalassology of the Indian Ocean (up to c. 1500 CE)

Chapter 4 A Chinese Muse in the Caliph’s Court: The Influence of Chinese Ceramic Technology Across the Indian Ocean (Eighth to Fourteenth Century CE)

Chapter 5 Ava: A Living Tradition of Reverence for Water Among the Zoroastrians

Chapter 6 Scholars in Gujarat’s Bazaars: Revisiting L’académie ambulante (“The Roving Academy”)

Chapter 7 Gujarat Ornamental Furniture: Artisans, Techniques, Skills and Global Markets During the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 8 “Without a Counterpart on the Globe”: Geographical Knowledge and the Mapping of “Kutch” in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 10 Doing Well but Also Doing Good? East African Indian Merchants and Their Charitable Work, c. 1850–1920

Chapter 11 Narratives of Transcendental Decision-Making: Seeking Health and Healing at Sufi Shrines in Gujarat

Chapter 12 Voices of the Sidis: Indians of African Descent

Chapter 13 Linguistic and Cultural Contributions of Gujarat in Eastern Africa

Chapter 14 The Transnational Life and Political Philosophy of Shyamji Krishnavarma