2. Imagining “Maritime Asia”

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Conceptualizing the Region: Past and Present
6. 1. Locating Asia, Arresting Asia: Grappling with “The Epistemology that Kills” 17
7. 2. Imagining “Maritime Asia” 36
8. 3. In Search of an Asian Vision: The Asian Relations Conference of 1947 60
9. Part II. Conceptualizing Asia through the Prism of Europe
10. 4. In Pursuit of Knowledge from Asia: François Valentijn on the Hindu Social Divisions in the Coromandel Region, c. Seventeenth–Eighteenth Century 93
11. 5. British Romantic Poetics and the Idea of Asia 125
12. Part III. Networks of Knowledge Across the Indian Ocean
13. 6. An Indian Ocean Ribāṭ: War and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Ponnāni, Malabar Coast 147
14. 7. Travelling Spirits: Revisiting Melaka’s Keramat from the Indian Ocean 175
15. Part IV. Histories and Geographies of Pilgrimage in Asia
16. 8. Transmissions, Translations, Reconstitutions: Revisiting Geographies of Buddha Relics in the Southern Asian Worlds 215
17. 9. The Politics of Pilgrimage: Reception of Hajj among South Asian Muslims 251
18. Part V: Trans-Local Dynamics and Intra-Asian Connections across Space and Time
19. 10. Sanskritic Buddhism as an Asian Universalism 275
20. 11. Interconnectedness and Mobility in the Middle Ages/Nowadays: From Baghdad to Chang’an and from Istanbul to Tokyo 334
21. 12. Connecting Networks and Orienting Space: Relocating Nguyen Cochinchina between East and Southeast Asia in the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries 358
22. 13. The Highlands of West Sumatra and their Maritime Trading Connections 393
23. INDEX 425