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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 91–106.
Published: 01 May 2022
... world through the lens of shipwrecks. It traces a shift in the right to shipwrecked property from littoral communities to the merchants who owned the cargo before it was seized by the waves. The second section traces the shift from merchants who deployed violence as an essential tool in commercial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 345–366.
Published: 01 August 2007
... history Madagascar’s history. “It was not until the third
during the fi rst half of the twentieth century republic that we achieved our goals thanks to
and chronicles shipwreck and pioneering Jesuit our valiant army conducted by General Duch- Colonies Lost...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 80–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., disdaining the anachronism entailed in theorizing the nineteenth-century workings of industrial capital through a 1719 depiction of a Caribbean shipwreck. Yet it was Robinson Crusoe that al-Bustānī turned to in order to render Arabic simultaneous and so equivalent with English. Just a few years after al...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 77–79.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Mathew's piece) or naval accounting (Karim Malak's piece)—often actually serve to consolidate the rearrangement of relations of violence into objective rules that purportedly serve to analyze the world in its own right . In this sense, theories of value, practices of calculation, rules of shipwreck...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 491–493.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the Persian Cosmopolis Usman Hamid and Pasha M. Khan W hen the early seventeenth- century Central Asian traveler Mah.m d b. Am r Wal Balk. h found himself shipwrecked, destitute, and imprisoned in Orissa, in the eastern reaches of the Mu-ghal empire, his future must have looked bleak. Because he had been...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 266–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the time is fulfilled, and it comes to grief through fire of robbers or shipwreck, A is to be kept blameless and receive his own again. But if, before the time fixed by the contract is completed, a loss arises from the dangers of the sea, it seemed good that they should bear the loss according...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 222–231.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., of a ra-
scholarship has established that the authors were cial and religious mixture representing the range
very likely Isma’ili Shia in their personal commit- of humanity, have shipwrecked. Upon seeing the
ments, the Epistles do not come across as doctri- peaceful and flourishing animals...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 355–367.
Published: 01 August 2017
... no interest in
One story focuses on the arrival of Indian carv- using imported chairs, sofas, or tables to recreate
ers in the distant past, who, having shipwrecked European or Indian household norms (see fig. 2).
off the coast, came to settle on the island and in Figure 2 shows a view of the public...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of Song- mon grassroots organization for the fi rst time
Africa and the khla. Legends recount that their ancestors were and generating numerous exchanges among
Middle East seafarers who were shipwrecked and could not them according to the universal ideology...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 104–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
... their shipwrecked property by relying on the British Empire and its strategic use of force. Johann Mathew shows that this transfer of right to merchants marked the consolidation of the British Empire over the open seas via compensation and strategic deployment, rather than by monopoly over violence. In this context...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 456–470.
Published: 01 December 2023
... from its shipwrecked hope that the bourgeoisie would invest in industrialization and shift farming techniques to improve productivity. In part, this was because of rising government fear that absent state action for the poor, the poor would intervene and do something about the state. 19...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 204–221.
Published: 01 August 2015
... are shipwrecked on
story of Shah Waliullah is one that advises restraint an island previously uninhabited by humans, they
and the avoidance of killing snakes, if possible. In start hunting, trapping, enslaving, and maltreating
this hadith a snake also appears when a pious...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 146–162.
Published: 01 August 2023
... : University of Hawaiʻi Press , 2007 . Bialuschewski Arne . “ Anatomy of a Slave Insurrection: The Shipwreck of the Vautour on the West Coast of Madagascar in 1725 .” French Colonial History 12 ( 2011 ): 87 – 101 . Bishara Fahad Ahmad . A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life...
