Book synopsis: The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal—India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia—are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history fo...
Judith M. Brown
By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century, many left reluctantly to seek economic opportuni...
Shivaji Ganguly
Carolin Liss
Southeast Asia and Bangladesh are at present global hot spots of pirate attacks on merchant vessels and fishing boats. This book explains why, and in what form, piracy still exists. It offers an integrated analysis of the root causes of piracy, linking declining fish stocks, organized crime networks...
List of figures List of maps List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Introduction: themes in the study of the South Asian diaspora Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec Part I. South Asians in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts: Introduction Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec ...
Kazi Ali Toufique
Sanae Ito
Abstract This paper examines changing agrarian institutions in south‐western Bangladesh where a large number of farmers, small and large, have switched from rice farming to export‐oriented freshwater prawn farming within the last decade. The local economy boomed until ecological and managerial probl...
Mary K. Shenk, Mary C. Towner, Emily A. Voss, Nurul Alam
This paper uses the framework of intensive and extensive kinship systems to organize and understand a large body of research on consanguineous marriage across cultures, particularly studies in demography and development that document decreasing consanguineous marriage with market integration. We arg...
Prakash C. Jain
Tables. Figures. Boxes. Introduction Prakash C. Jain and Ginu Zacharia Oommen Part I: Comparative and Theoretical Issues 1. South Asian Migration to GCC Countries: Emerging Trends and Challenges Ginu Zacharia Oommen 2. Arab versus Asian Migrant Workers in the GCC Countries Kapiszewski Andrzej 3. Asp...
Ellen Bal
This study is a critical investigation into the category of tribes in South Asia. It breaks away from previous studies of tribes in the region. While it focuses on one so-called tribal community, the Garos of Bangladesh, it neither studies Garo culture as such, nor their social organization. Instead...
Katy Gardner
Cet article traite du mysticisme musulman tel qu'il est pratique au Bengale. Les Pirs sont souvent decrits comme des saints Soufis, jouissent d'une grande autorite spirituelle et ont contribue fortement au syncretisme de l'Islam en Asie du Sud. L'emigration vers la Grande-Bretagne a longtemps ete un...
Faridul Islam, Jack Carlsen
Despite the fact that indigenous culture is considered a significant tourist attraction, limited attention has been given to the relationship between indigenous communities, tourism development and poverty alleviation in the context of developing nations. Two case studies from Bangladesh demonstrate...
Mónica L. Smith
Abstract The idea that Indian "influence" was responsible for the socio-political development of early Southeast Asia is now largely discredited, but the question of the actual impact of early trade between India and Southeast Asia remains. Prior to the fourth century C.E., Indian trade activities w...
Kate Phylaktis
1. Introduction: Fresh and Salt Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall and Stephen Muecke 2. The Forms of Water: In the Land and In the Soul Jeff Malpas 3. Variable Rights and Diminishing Control: The Evolution of Indigenous Maritime Sovereignty in Oceania Paul D'Arcy 4. Ocean, Empire and Nation: Japanese ...