Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought

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List of contributors
Introduction: Oceanic Imagination and Cosmopolitan Cultures:
Thinking Through History Across the Waters
PART I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism
	1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolised Water
	2. Fellowship and aversion in the South: The challenges of South–South collaboration
	3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic Histories
	4. Remembering the Bengal Delta ca. 1450–1850
	5.
“The wind sketches landscapes of words”: Reading the wind in the Horn of Africa
PART II: Oceanic Narratives
	6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and belonging in Syed Alaol’s Padmabati
	7.
Pat.appa-t.t.us in the Indian Ocean: Connected Literary Sensibilities and the Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit Cosmopolises
PART III:
Constructing Space
	8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian Ocean
	9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities and Architecture through Ibn Battuta’s Water Journeys (1342–47)
	10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the twenty-first century
PART IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans
	11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in Kerala
	12. ʿUlama-ʾ Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval Malabar
	13. Encountering the ‘Other’: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic Mobility
	14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial India
	15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and Botswana
Index