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This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts, islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship on the oceanic environment and climate across South Asia.
List of contents
Introduction
1. Kerala Coast and the Environmental Ethics of Precarity
2. A Monsoon Miracle: Naming and Knowing the Mudbanks of Malabar
3. "Source to Mouth": Engineers, Rivers, Coasts and the Bengal Delta (1750–1918)
4. Living Paradox in Riverine Bangladesh: Whiteheadian Perspectives on Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir
5. Earth, Water, Salt: Amphibious Pasts of the Lower Gangetic Delta
About the author
Sudipta Sen is a professor of history and Middle East/South Asia studies, University of California, Davis. He is an author of Empire of Free Trade: The English East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace (1998); Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India (2002); Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River (2019) and a co-editor of the Routledge Ocean and Island Studies book series.
May Joseph is the founder of Harmattan Theatre and a professor of social science at Pratt Institute, and an author of the books Ghosts of Lumumba (2020); Sealog: Indian Ocean to New York (2019); Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination (2013); and Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (1999). Joseph is also co-editor of Performing Hybridity (1999). She co-edits three book series from Routledge: Critical Climate Studies, Ocean and Island Studies, and Kaleidoscope: Ethnography, Art, Architecture and Archaeology. Joseph creates site specific performances along Dutch and Portuguese maritime routes exploring climate issues.
Summary
This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts, islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship on the oceanic environment and climate across South Asia.
