Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Climate Change and Environment
5. Intro 1
6. One The Great Uprooting: Migration and Displacement in an Age of Planetary Crisis 5
7. Two Storm of Consequences 29
8. Three Cyclone Nargis 34
9. Four Folly in the Sundarbans? 38
10. Five The Town by the Sea 45
11. Six A Tragic Predicament 71
12. Witnesses
13. Intro 81
14. Seven Santanu Das and the First World War 85
15. Eight Abhi Le Baghdad 93
16. Nine At 'Home and the World' in Iraq, 1915-17 123
17. Ten Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the Prison Camps of Ras al-'Ain, 1916-18 143
18. Eleven Of Panas and Forecastles : The Indian Ocean and Some Lost Languages of the Age of Sail 169
19. Twelve Wordless Pasts: The Indian Exodus from Burma and the Writing of The Glass Palace 191
20. Travel and Discovery
21. Intro 213
22. Thirteen Confessions of a Xenophile 215
23. Fourteen The Mountains Are High and the Emperor Is Far Away 227
24. Fifteen The Spice Islands 239
25. Narratives
26. Intro 261
27. Sixteen The Well-Travelled Banyan 263
28. Seventeen 11 September 2001 267
29. Eighteen Wild Fictions 272
30. Conversations
31. Intro 297
32. Nineteen Provincializing Europe: A Correspondence 299
33. Twenty Imperial Denial 337
34. Twenty-one Storytelling and the Spectrum of the Past 347
35. Twenty-two Shashi Tharoor's An Era of Darkness 361
36. Twenty-three Priya Satia's Time's Monster 370
37. Presentations
38. Intro 381
39. Twenty-four The Making of In an Antique Land : India, Egypt and the Cairo Geniza 383
40. Twenty-five Computers and Spinning Wheels 405
41. Twenty-six The Way of A.K. Ramanujan 418
42. Afterword 427
43. Notes 433
44. Index 470