Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1. Ocean and Narration 1
5. 2. Old World Orders: Amitav Ghosh and the Writing of Nostalgia 20
6. 3. Post-Manichaean Aesthetics: Asian Texts and Lives 55
7. 4. Through Indian Eyes: Travel and the Performance of Ethnicity 85
8. 5. Commerce as Romance: Mehta, Madhvani, Manji 112
9. 6. Lighting a Candle on Mount Kilimanjaro: Partnering with Nyerere 151
10. 7. Anti Anti-Asianism and the Politics of Dissent: M. G. Vassanji’s The Gunny Sack 172
11. Coda: Entangled Lives 205
12. Notes 217
13. Selected References 269
14. Index 277