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Belonging across the Bay of Bengal : religious rites, colonial migrations, national rights / edited by Michael Laffan.

Contributor(s): Laffan, Michael Francis, 1969- [editor] | Blackburn, Anne M., Buddhist networks across the Indian Ocean, 1967-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookLanguage: eng.Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2017Description: viii, 252 p. : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781350022614; 9781350022638.Subject(s): South Asia -- History | Southeast Asia -- History | South Asia -- Civilization | Southeast Asia -- CivilizationDDC classification: 909.09824
Contents:
Dhows, steamers, lifeboats / Michael Laffan -- Buddhist networks across the Indian Ocean / Anne Blackburn -- Borobudur in the light of Asia / Marieke Bloembergen -- Keramats running amuck / Teren Sevea -- The second Sikh / Arjun Naidu -- Markets, mobility, and matrimony / Torsten Tschacher -- Transcultural intimacies in British Burma and the Straits Settlements / Chie Ikeya -- Citizens, Aryans, and Indians in colonial Lanka cosmopolitan hybridities / Nira Wickramasinghe -- Calling the other shore / Bhavani Raman -- Hybridity and indigeneity in Malaya / David Henley -- History in and of a penal colony / Clare Anderson -- Looking back on the Bay of Bengal / Michael Laffan.
Summary: "An interconnected history of the regions surrounding the Bay of Bengal in the 19th and 20th centuries, weaving together themes of migration, diaspora, ethnicity, religion, culture and the emergence of nationalist politics and state policies"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index.

Dhows, steamers, lifeboats / Michael Laffan -- Buddhist networks across the Indian Ocean / Anne Blackburn -- Borobudur in the light of Asia / Marieke Bloembergen -- Keramats running amuck / Teren Sevea -- The second Sikh / Arjun Naidu -- Markets, mobility, and matrimony / Torsten Tschacher -- Transcultural intimacies in British Burma and the Straits Settlements / Chie Ikeya -- Citizens, Aryans, and Indians in colonial Lanka cosmopolitan hybridities / Nira Wickramasinghe -- Calling the other shore / Bhavani Raman -- Hybridity and indigeneity in Malaya / David Henley -- History in and of a penal colony / Clare Anderson -- Looking back on the Bay of Bengal / Michael Laffan.

"An interconnected history of the regions surrounding the Bay of Bengal in the 19th and 20th centuries, weaving together themes of migration, diaspora, ethnicity, religion, culture and the emergence of nationalist politics and state policies"--

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