Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1 Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim 1
5. 2 The Gulf between Precolonial and Colonial Empires 36
6. 3 Flows of Capitalists, Laborers, and Commodities 72
7. 4 Waging War for King and Country 122
8. 5 Expatriate Patriots: Anticolonial Imagination and Action 148
9. 6 Pilgrims’ Progress under Colonial Rules 193
10. 7 A Different Universalism? Oceanic Voyages of a Poet as Pilgrim 233
11. Conclusion: The Indian Ocean Arena in the History of Globalization 272
12. Notes 285
13. Index 315