Further Reading
For an excellent starting point to the long-term history of the Indian Ocean, see Edward Alpers, The Indian Ocean in world history (Oxford, 2014); and the earlier Michael Pearson, The Indian Ocean (New York, 2003).
For an important intervention for the modern period, see Sugata Bose, A hundred horizons: The Indian Ocean in the age of global empire (Cambridge, MA, 2009). For a long-term history of a smaller sea, see Sunil Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The furies of nature and the fortunes of migrants (Cambridge, MA, 2013). For recent approaches which adopt more granular modes; on biography, see Clare Anderson, Subaltern lives: Biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1820 (Cambridge, 2012); for islands, see Sujit Sivasundaram, Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka and the bounds of an Indian Ocean colony (Chicago, IL, 2013); for literacy, see Ronit Ricci, Islam translated: Literature and conversion and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia (Delhi, 2011) and also Pier Larson, Ocean of letters: Language and creolization in the Indian Ocean diaspora (Cambridge, 2009) and Isabel Hofmeyr, Gandhi's printing press: Experiments in slow reading (Cambridge, MA, 2013). For entry points to the history of Islam and the Indian Ocean from South and Southeast Asian in turn, see Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 (Cambridge, 2011) and Eric Tagliacozzo, The longest journey: Southeast Asians and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Oxford, 2013); also the very influential, Engseng Ho, The graves of Tarim: Genealogy and mobility across the Indian Ocean (Berkeley, CA, 2006). For imperial histories of the Indian Ocean, see, Kerry Ward, Networks of empire: Forced migration in the Dutch East India Company (Cambridge, 2009) and Thomas Metcalf, Imperial connections: India in the Indian Ocean arena, 1860-1920 (Berkeley, CA, 2007). For Indian Ocean diaspora, as a starting point, see Sana Aiyar, Indians in Kenya (Cambridge, MA, 2015). For the key debate on the trading world of the Indian Ocean, see, for instance, Kirti N. Chaudhuri, Asia before Europe: Economy and civilisation in the Indian Ocean from the rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1991); Ashin das Gupta, The world of the Indian Ocean merchant 1500-1 800: Collected essays (Delhi, 2001); Jeremy Prestholdt, Domesticating the world: African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization (Berkeley, CA, 2008); and Pedro Machado, Ocean of trade: South Asian merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean c.1750-1850 (Cambridge, 2015). For environmental history and history of science, see Richard Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island Edens and the origins of environmentalism (Cambridge, 1995) and Anna Winterbottom, Hybrid knowledge in the early East Indian Company world (Basingstoke, 2016). For the history of labour, see Richard Allen, Slaves, freedman and indentured laborers in colonial Mauritius (Cambridge, 1999); Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole island: Slavery in eighteenth-c entury Mauritius (Durham, NC, 2005), G. Balchandran, Globalizing labour? Indian seafarers and world shipping, c.1870-1945 (Oxford, 2012) and Aaron Jaffer, Lascars and Indian Ocean seafaring, 1780- 1860 (Woodbridge, 2015). For the social history of the Indian Ocean, see Abdul Sheriff and Engseng Ho, eds., The Indian Ocean: Oceanic connections and the creation of new societies (London, 2014) and H. P. Ray and E. A. Alpers, Cross currents and community networks: The history of the Indian Ocean World (Oxford, 2007).
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