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NBN Episodes hosted by Kelvin:

Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

May 12, 2022

Islamic Law in Circulation

Mahmood Kooria
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

Analyzing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in …

Isabel Hofmeyr, "Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 11, 2022

Dockside Reading

Isabel Hofmeyr
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

In Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Duke University Press, 2022), Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture,…

Ismail Fajrie Alatas, "What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia" (Princeton UP, 2021)

July 30, 2021

What Is Religious Authority?

Ismail Fajrie Alatas
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia (Princeton UP, 2021) by Ismail Fajrie Alatas draws on groundbreaking anthro…

Anand A. Yang, "Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia" (U California Press, 2021)

April 8, 2021

Empire of Convicts

Anand A. Yang
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 2021) (University of California Press, 2021) focuse…

Arunima Datta, "Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

April 5, 2021

Fleeting Agencies

Arunima Datta
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2021) disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing …

Smriti Srinivas et al., "Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds" (Routledge, 2020)

April 2, 2021

Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds

Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, and Neelima Jeychandran
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (Routledge, 2020), coedited by Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, and Neelima Jeychandran, breaks new ground by bringin…

Teren Sevea, "Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

February 10, 2021

Miracles and Material Life

Teren Sevea
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2020), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and r…

J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)

December 28, 2020

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth

J. Daniel Elam
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham University Press, 2020) recovers a genealogy …

L. Benton and N. Perl-Rosenthal, "A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

December 7, 2020

A World at Sea

Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

L. Benton and N. Perl-Rosenthal's A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020) consists of nine original essays …

Nurfadzilah Yahaya, "Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)

November 16, 2020

Fluid Jurisdictions

Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) by Prof. Nurfadzilah Yahaya is a wide-ranging, geograph…

Sujit Sivasundaram, "Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire" (William Collins, 2020)

November 12, 2020

Waves Across the South

Sujit Sivasundaram
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

In Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins, 2020), Sujit Sivasundaram brings together far-flung archives acros…

Pedro Machado, "Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds" (Ohio UP, 2020)

November 9, 2020

Pearls, People, and Power

Pedro Machado
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds (Ohio University Press, 2020), co-edited by Pedro Machado, Joseph Christensen, Steve Mulli…

Wilson Chacko Jacob, "For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World" (Stanford UP, 2019)

October 15, 2020

For God or Empire

Wilson Chacko Jacob
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life—one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and …

E. A. Alpers and C. Goswami, "Transregional Trade and Traders" (Oxford UP, 2019)

October 1, 2020

Transregional Trade and Traders

E. A. Alpers and C. Goswami (eds.)
Hosted by Kelvin Ng

Blessed with numerous safe harbors, accessible ports, and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime exchange…