...Nidhi Mahajan Abstract This essay traces how sailors aboard wooden sailing vessels (dhows) negotiate mobility across the Indian Ocean, revealing their precarious conditions preceding the COVID-19 pandemic that came to the fore after 2020. Focusing on Yusuf, a sailor in captivity in Iran during...

...Micheal A. Rumore Abstract The burgeoning field of Indian Ocean studies has emerged as a repository of universalist political aspirations, often inspired by the Non-Aligned imagination of the Third World era. In particular, the notion of Indian Ocean “cosmopolitanism,” as both an object of desire...

... with the arrival only a little later of the Portuguese on the coast of southern and southeastern Arabia to monopolize Indian Ocean trade? Can we go back even earlier in the history of Arabia and in the history of Yemen in particular, when there emerged more “indigenous” or “homegrown imperialisms” long before...

... to their rule through the lens of Muslim fanaticism and fatalism. In his rich exploration of Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean hajj, Michael Christopher Low elucidates how Muslims were “racialized, pathologized, and singled out as carriers of both dangerous microbes and subversive, even uniquely violent...

.... Meccans already had their own schools, most of them religious ( Al-Rasheed ; Farquhar ). Several notable families had provided funds and properties for traditional private schools in which established local ulama and those from Hadramawt, the Indian Ocean, and the Ottoman Empire taught. Although...

... typical invocation and usage in Atlantic studies, requires close attention as it speaks to a group ofhistories that continue to remain sequestered within Indian Ocean recuperations ofslave histories. Thus, when Hartman writes that "the most universal definition ofthe slave is a stranger;' a kin-less...

... argues, is precisely to forget their existence, to dispense with their right to care, access, and reparation. Nidhi Mahajan’s “Locked up in Lockdown: Patronage in a Time of Pandemic in the Indian Ocean” carries Banerjee’s observations (as it were) to sea. Building on extended fieldwork on migration...

... nor empirically sustainable. This is no singular or individual slippage. Contributions to the academically, as well as commercially, successful genre ofheroic globalization narratives {including many, though not all, products ofthe resurgent "Indian Ocean industry") diverge in their eulogies ofeither...

... of Johannesburg, and a particular kind of Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism that drew South Africa, London, and the British Empire into its embrace and forged a conjunctural politics that was particular to the moment, both culturally and geographically.12 In this paper, I shall take a different approach by attempting...

... to them. What historian of empire, of lndia and its ocean worlds, ofglobal commodity chains, of mobility and labor and intimacy, of women, gender and sexuality-to name only a few dimensions of the past that Sea ofPoppies renders so lyrically and so ver­ tiginously-would not like to be able to tell...

... not be the hegemonic sway of the United States.15 We trace Koreans' construction of their imagined racial inferiors, includ­ ing people of African descent but also American Indians and other Indig­ enous peoples, to the precolonial period. In his groundbreaking study of the German overseas empire, George Steinmetz...

... expedition, the SMS Novara’ s circumnavigation of the globe under Karl von Scherzer (1857–59) offers an illustrative example. Traversing the Indian Ocean, the Novara sailed to the Nicobar Islands in 1858 on a covert attempt to reestablish an eighteenth-century outpost of the Austrian East India Company...

... that their followers had to be inculcated with the consciousness of being Indian if they were to join the fight for independence and progressively, for other rights. 8 Bernard Bate shows how a dynamic recasting of the very idea of “politics” occurred in the first two decades of the twentieth century, providing...

..., they built their town on land that had been stolen from these people in an especially cynical manner just a few years earlier.16 They calculated that theconversionofnative people to Christianity would only succeed once "the Indians are Cooped up into a narrow Compass and Subdued:'17 Even as they exploited...

... as a clueless aging Texas racist—asks Alberto, “Ain’t you Indian? You’re supposed to be burning sage and dancing around the bed like a bee stung ya.” When Alberto finally changes the channel, Marcus presses on with his taunting, suggesting Alberto’s “Mexican half” would appreciate the soccer highlights...

... to navigate the high seas, which encompassed the earth, he remarked: "The question is concerning the whole ocean, whichantiquitycallethunmeasurableand infinite, the parent ofthings bordering upon heaven, with whose perpetual moisture the ancients sup­ posed not only fountains and rivers and seas, but also...

...—organized and unorganized, incorporated and unincorporated, commonwealths, atolls, and guano islands—as well as 63 state-only and 567 federally recognized Indian tribal nations (and an estimated 200 non-recognized or terminated tribes), including also Alaskan Native tribal entities and corporations, Pueblos...

... of Ethnology for "killing through their massive heaping" and warned that "a reaction against this over-heaping will soon register itself:' "Why;' he asked, "is Indian, Chinese, and Javanese art relegated to science and an­ thropology? And the art of the natural peoples as such not at all valued?"23 While...