Moorings

Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean

Nidhi Mahajan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41351-1 (ISBN)

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Moorings follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the Indian Ocean on mechanized wooden sailing vessels known as vahans, or dhows. These voyages produce capital through moorings that are spatial, moral, material, and conceptual. With a view from the dhow, the book examines the social worlds of Muslim seafarers who have been rendered invisible even as they maneuver multiple regulatory regimes and the exigencies of life, navigating colonialism, neoliberalism, the rise of Hindutva, insurgency, climate change, and border regimes across the ocean. Based on historical and ethnographic research aboard ships, at ports, and in religious shrines and homes, Moorings shows how capitalism derives value from historically sedimented practices grounded in caste, gender, and transregional community-based forms of regulation.

Nidhi Mahajan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Note on Language
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Moorings and Voyages: The View from the Dhow
1. Strangers on Shore: Hospitality and Sovereignty in Mombasa's Old Port
Interlude: Dispatches from the Shadows
2. Dhow Itineraries: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Shadow Economies in the Western Indian Ocean
Interlude: Habibi, Come to Dubai
3. A Burning Sea: Risk and Geopolitical Arbitrage across the Persian Gulf
Interlude: Mausam—At Sea
4. Of Sailors and Sufis: Divine Sovereignty and Danger at Sea
Interlude: Aakhar—At Home
5. Those Who Stay: Patronage, Kinship, and Seasons of Sail in the Gulf of Kachchh
Epilogue

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2025
Zusatzinfo	22 color illustrations; 3 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	0-520-41351-2 / 0520413512
ISBN-13	978-0-520-41351-1 / 9780520413511
Zustand	Neuware