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Nile Green, “Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

Nile Green
Bombay Islam
The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Cambridge University Press, 2011

New Books in Hindu Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network July 15, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

Bombay (Mumbai), India, is a city that has never lacked chroniclers from Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie to Suketu Mehta, bards of pluralism have written about Bombay’s divers religions and peoples and the interactions between them. Now here comes a… Read More

Robert Parthesius
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters
The Development of the Dutch East India Company Shipping Network in Asia 1595-1660
Amsterdam University Press, 2010

New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network July 5, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

The Dutch broke the Portuguese commercial and colonizing monopoly in the East in 1595; the seal might have been said to have been set on this triumph when they took over the port of Melaka in 1641, effectively replacing the… Read More

Katharine E. McGregor
History in Uniform
Military Ideology and the Construction of Indonesia's Past
NUS Press, 2007

New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network July 5, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

Nugroho Notosusanto (1930-1985) never pursued a military career; but all the same he did his bit for the Indonesian armed forces. He was co-opted into the Armed Forces History Centre as a young academic, and dedicated the greater part of… Read More

Tilman Nachtman, “Nabobs: Empire and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain” (Cambridge UP, 2010)

Tillman Nechtman
Nabobs
Empire and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Cambridge University Press, 2010

New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network June 14, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

The many penniless English servants of the East India Company who landed at Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta in the eighteenth-century were not terribly interested in uplifting the natives. They were, however, very keen to enrich themselves. And, by wheeling and… Read More

Noboru Ishikawa
Between Frontiers
Nation and Identity in a South East Asian Borderland
NUS Press, 2010

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in South Asian Studies New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network May 31, 2011 Dhara Anjaria

Borneo is an island where three very different nation-states meet: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. The Indonesian province of Kalimantan occupies most of the island; of the rest, all except one percent is taken up by the Malaysian provinces of Sabah… Read More