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ItemAmbivalent engagements: The Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean world( 2017-02-01)This article investigates the role played by the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean world. It argues that formulations that suggest the Bay's encounters were ambivalent and sporadic until c.1000 - when there was a trade revolution - and see it as a latecomer in the Indian Ocean world, are wrong. Examples from commerce and cultural flows reveal the Bay world as an active participant in the Indian Ocean world from early times and debunk the notion of passivity.
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ItemVirtual tourism as a new form of oppression against women( 2012-12-01)This chapter draws upon parallel developments in tourism and new media studies basing on the emergence of virtual tourism. Virtual tourism, and by extension real tourism, is taken as a site for analysis where both these methods can be employed. This chapter looks at certain websites and sees how prostitution and other forms of work are subsumed under the garb of development, whereas they are in fact crimes against women. © 2012, IGI Global.
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ItemRevisiting Michael Pearson's Indian Ocean Littoral( 2017-01-01)This essay rethinks Pearson's formulation of littoral society in two essays he wrote in 1985 and 2006. While the first made a case for coastal history, the second continued the theme into the littoral, the strip between land and sea. Pearson foregrounded the universality of a clearly discernible littoral culture on coastlines along and across the Indian Ocean. This translated consequently into a shared history and a common heritage across the ocean's diverse shores. At a time when maritime historians were writing what were essentially land-based histories on ocean spaces, Pearson's social history of the littoral over a longue duree was a significant intervention.
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ItemMigrant narratives: Reading literary representations of Christian migration in Kerala, 1920–70( 2006-01-01)The population movements that have occurred within present-day Kerala should be seen in tandem with the history of the massive out-migration record of the state, which has earned for its people the image of being a robust community with a proclivity for migration. This article explores the fashioning of the figure of the kutiyettakkaran, a migrant, in the Malayalee unconscious by problematising the peasant migration from Travancore to Malabar during 1920–70. Reading across Malayalam literary representations, this article looks at the configuration of the migrant self as located within the problematic of capital and colonial modernity. These literary texts, simultaneously fashioned by and fashioning history, give a nuanced picture of the contradictions and compulsions that governed the migrants as well as the natives. The migrant identity of the Syrian Christian settler in Malabar is construed within a social imaginary regulated by a specific discourse of development. The fashioning and circulation of a modernising and heroic image endowed the migrant with a peculiar authority in the landscape and history of Malabar. However, such a mission is critiqued, often in absolute terms, by texts closer to our times. These contemporary texts, informed as much by the consequences of the migration, play an important role in reconfiguring the Syrian Christian migrant as a stooge of capital. © 2006, Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd,. All rights reserved.