Dilip M. Menon is a historian and currently the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. South Africa.Nishat Zaidi is Professor and former Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

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• Note on ContributorsIntroductionNishat Zaidi and Dilip MenonSection I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolized WaterIsabel Hofmeyr2.Fellowship and Aversion in the South: The Challenges of South-South CollaborationElleke Boehmer3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic HistoriesGeeta Patel4. Remembering the Bengal Delta: ca. 1450-1850Rila Mukherjee5. “The wind sketches landscapes of words”: Oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean”Kelsey McFaulSection II: Oceanic Narratives6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and Belonging in Syed Alaol’s PadmabatiSwati Moitra7. Senses Translated: Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean, Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit CosmopoleisIhsan Ul IhthisamSection III: Constructing Space8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian OceanNidhi Mahajan9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities & Architecture through Ibn Battuta’s Water Journeys (1342-1347)Iqtedar Alam10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the 21st centuryChrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod BalakrishnanSection IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in KeralaM.H.Ilias.12. ʿUlamāʾ Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval MalabarMohammed Shameem K. K.13. Encountering the ‘Other: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic MobilityMuhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial IndiaSteven S. George15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and BotswanaKashish DuaIndex

Dilip M. Menon is a historian and currently the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. South Africa.Nishat Zaidi is Professor and former Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

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• Note on ContributorsIntroductionNishat Zaidi and Dilip MenonSection I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolized WaterIsabel Hofmeyr2.Fellowship and Aversion in the South: The Challenges of South-South CollaborationElleke Boehmer3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic HistoriesGeeta Patel4. Remembering the Bengal Delta: ca. 1450-1850Rila Mukherjee5. “The wind sketches landscapes of words”: Oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean”Kelsey McFaulSection II: Oceanic Narratives6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and Belonging in Syed Alaol’s PadmabatiSwati Moitra7. Senses Translated: Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean, Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit CosmopoleisIhsan Ul IhthisamSection III: Constructing Space8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian OceanNidhi Mahajan9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities & Architecture through Ibn Battuta’s Water Journeys (1342-1347)Iqtedar Alam10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the 21st centuryChrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod BalakrishnanSection IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in KeralaM.H.Ilias.12. ʿUlamāʾ Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval MalabarMohammed Shameem K. K.13. Encountering the ‘Other: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic MobilityMuhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial IndiaSteven S. George15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and BotswanaKashish DuaIndex

Dilip M. Menon is a historian and currently the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. South Africa.Nishat Zaidi is Professor and former Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

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• Note on ContributorsIntroductionNishat Zaidi and Dilip MenonSection I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolized WaterIsabel Hofmeyr2.Fellowship and Aversion in the South: The Challenges of South-South CollaborationElleke Boehmer3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic HistoriesGeeta Patel4. Remembering the Bengal Delta: ca. 1450-1850Rila Mukherjee5. “The wind sketches landscapes of words”: Oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean”Kelsey McFaulSection II: Oceanic Narratives6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and Belonging in Syed Alaol’s PadmabatiSwati Moitra7. Senses Translated: Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean, Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit CosmopoleisIhsan Ul IhthisamSection III: Constructing Space8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian OceanNidhi Mahajan9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities & Architecture through Ibn Battuta’s Water Journeys (1342-1347)Iqtedar Alam10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the 21st centuryChrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod BalakrishnanSection IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in KeralaM.H.Ilias.12. ʿUlamāʾ Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval MalabarMohammed Shameem K. K.13. Encountering the ‘Other: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic MobilityMuhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial IndiaSteven S. George15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and BotswanaKashish DuaIndex