Port Towns of Gujarat

EDITOR – Sara Keller and Michael Pearson

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This volume offers new insights on cost-hinterland connections, urban morphology, port cities and littoral societies, the role of Gujarat in the Indian Ocean and data on the history of Gujarat, the Indian Ocean, and the many great port cities on India’s north-west coast. Gujarat’s port cities, ‘gems in the necklace of the

coast’, were vital hubs which enabled connections with other cities and other cultures across the Indian Ocean and beyond, including the Mediterranean and the South China Sea. These cities, cosmopolitan in their outlook, also acted as cultural centres attracting traders and scholars from far away. With contributions by subject specialists who have worked extensively on port cities and who provide new and innovative perspectives, this volume will appeal to historians, urban geographers, economists, and other social scientists

The Editor

Sara Keller is a Building Archaeologist and specializes in Urban History of Medieval India. She coordinates multiple research projects on pre-modern architecture and the tangible heritage of Gujarat. Since 2010, she has been conducting surveys and studies on the architectural remains of western Indian ports for the French research unit ‘Orient and Mediterranean’ and the Department of History, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Michael Pearson is Emeritus Professor of History at The University of New South Wales, Australia. He is an internationally renowned scholar who has published pioneering studies on the Indian Ocean and its history. The Indian Ocean, The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500–1800 and Eyes Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean, count amongst his numerous publications which are now required readings for Indian Ocean studies.

As a global figure, Tagore transcends the boundaries of language and reaches out to people distant both in time and space. His art took inspiration from contemporary Western trends and became a powerful means to connect with people beyond Bengal. Word, image, song, and text were his tools of communication, as also his extraordinary presence in a sartorial garb of his own design. A littérateur in many genres, the impact of his work was determined both by the material he presented, and by its simultaneously local and global contexts. Now, when his international reputation has spanned over more than a hundred years, it is important to revisit the sites of Tagore’s eminence, and ask to what extent he was a ‘living text’ in the century that witnessed him as a global intellectual.
Accordingly, this volume investigates how Tagore’s writings and art are linked to the metalinguistic domains of the psychological, medical and mythical; how he was received in various cultures outside India; how his art was determined by individual circumstances and global aspirations; and how he acted as an inspiration to his contemporaries and subsequent generations including modern Indian writers and artists.

The Editor
Imre Bangha studied in Budapest and Santiniketan and at present is Associate Professor of Hindi at the University of Oxford. He has published books and essays in English, Hindi, and Hungarian on literature in Brajbhasha and other forms of old Hindi and has also prepared Hungarian translations from various South Asian languages. His work on the international reception of Bengali culture includes Rabindranath Tagore: Hundred Years of Global Reception (2014, co-edited with M. Kämpchen) and Hungry Tiger: Encounter between India and Central Europe (2007).