Monsoon Asia

A reader on South and Southeast Asia

Author: Henley, David; Wickramasinghe, Nira
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Serie: Critical, Connected Histories
ISBN: 9789087283902
eISBN Pdf: 9789400604360
Place of publication: Holland , Netherlands
Year of digital publication: 2023
Month: January
Pages: 441
Language: English

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Monsoon Asia was the first venue of global trade, a zone of encounters, exchanges, and cultural diffusion. This book demonstrates the continuing fertility of the Monsoon Asia perspective as an aid to understanding what South/Southeast Asia, as a connected space, has been in the past and is today. Sixteen tightly knit chapters, written by experts from perspectives ranging from Indology and philology to postcolonial and transnational studies, offer a captivating view of the region, with its rich and variegated history shaped by commonalities in human ecology, cultural forms, and religious practices. The contributions draw upon extensive research and a thorough command of the most recent scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable text for anyone interested in South and Southeast Asia, and for more specialized students in the fields of global and Indian Ocean history, transcultural studies, archaeology, linguistics, and politics.

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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: Seasons and Civilizations
- David Henley
Chapter 2. Revisiting the Monsoon Asia Idea: Old Problems and New Directions
- Andrea Acri
Chapter 3. Space and Time in the Making of Monsoon Asia
- Jos Gommans
Chapter 4. New Paradigms for the Early Relationship between South and Southeast Asia: The Contribution of Southeast Asian Archaeology
- Pierre-Yves Manguin
Chapter 5. Contacts, Cosmopoleis, Colonial Legacies: Interconnected Language Histories
- Tom Hoogervorst
Chapter 6. Indianization Reconsidered: India’s Early Influence in Southe
- Hermann Kulke
Chapter 7. Local Projects and Transregional Modalities: The Pali Arena
- Anne M. Blackburn
Chapter 8. Muslim Circulations and Islamic Conversion in Monsoon Asia
- R. Michael Feener
Chapter 9. Islamic Literary Networks in South and Southeast Asia
- Ronit Ricci
Chapter 10. Languages of Law: Islamic Legal Cosmopolis and its Arabic and Malay Microcosmoi
- Mahmood Kooria
Chapter 11. Human Traffic: Asian Migration in the Age of Steam
- Sunil Amrith
Chapter 12. The Problem of Transregional Framing in Asian History: Charmed Knowledge Networks and Moral Geographies of “Greater India”
- Marieke Bloembergen
Chapter 13. Pragmatic Asianism: International Socialists in South and Southeast Asia
- Carolien Stolte
Chapter 14. The Informality Trap: Politics, Governance and Informal Institutions in South and Southeast Asia
- Ward Berenschot
Chapter 15. Epics in Worlds of Performance: A South/Southeast Asian Narrativity
- Bernard Arps
Chapter 16. Postscript: The Many Worlds of Monsoon Asia
- Nira Wickramasinghe
Bibliography
About the authors
Index