Overview
- Examines Western India and particularly Gujarat as a center of knowledge production and dissemination in the Indian Ocean world
- Foregrounds the intangible exchanges that accompanied the vibrant commercial trade of Western India, focusing on the spread of culture and knowledge
- Draws upon the disciplines of anthropology, agriculture, arts and crafts, botany, biology, palynology, demographics, medicine, philosophy and sociology
Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Knowledge, Science and Techniques
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Skill, Migration and Identities
Keywords
- Gujarat
- trade markets in the Indian Ocean
- maritime networks of Western India
- knowledge transfer
- African diaspora
- forced migration
- cross-oceanic connections
- Zoroastrian water management
- early knowledge transfer in the Indian Ocean
- Eastern Africa
- borderland history
- Western India
- Thalassology
- Chinese ceramics
- history of Islam
- Gujarat Ornamental Furniture
- East African Indian merchants
- Sufis in Gujarat
- Swahili language
- Shyamji Krishnavarma
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Knowledge and the Indian Ocean
Book Subtitle: Intangible Networks of Western India and Beyond
Editors: Sara Keller
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96839-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96838-4Published: 27 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07260-5Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96839-1Published: 11 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9703
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLI, 266
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Asian History, African History, Social History, Cultural History