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Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean: The Seafarers of Kachchh

Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean: The Seafarers of Kachchh 522 Book Reviews / JESHO 51 (2008) 513-541 Edward SIMPSON . Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean : Th e Sea- farers of Kachchh . York: Routledge, 2006. xiv + 188 pp., map, hardbound. ISBN: 0-415-37610-6. Simpson focuses on the Bhadalas, a community which engaged in ship owning and shipbuilding, activities Hindus had gradually abandoned these lines of enterprise in the Kachchh region in present-day Gujarat, by the early twentieth century. Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean : Th e Seafarers of Kachchh offers the reader a commendable approach of contem- porary communalism in Mandvi and its vicinity, exploring the issue between the Hindu and the Muslim populations and within the latter. His discussion of the various communal value systems and their workings shows an apparent intimacy with this field of investigation and is com- pletely devoid of self-indulgent biases. Th e book’s general conclusion regarding the need to reconsider the assumption that overseas mobility generally led to cosmopolitanism holds ground, although it also depends on the degree of the fluidity of the social relations back home on the main- land; but the writer has given due emphasis to this important element in his analysis. Th http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4995
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10.1163/156852008X317833
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522 Book Reviews / JESHO 51 (2008) 513-541 Edward SIMPSON . Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean : Th e Sea- farers of Kachchh . York: Routledge, 2006. xiv + 188 pp., map, hardbound. ISBN: 0-415-37610-6. Simpson focuses on the Bhadalas, a community which engaged in ship owning and shipbuilding, activities Hindus had gradually abandoned these lines of enterprise in the Kachchh region in present-day Gujarat, by the early twentieth century. Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean : Th e Seafarers of Kachchh offers the reader a commendable approach of contem- porary communalism in Mandvi and its vicinity, exploring the issue between the Hindu and the Muslim populations and within the latter. His discussion of the various communal value systems and their workings shows an apparent intimacy with this field of investigation and is com- pletely devoid of self-indulgent biases. Th e book’s general conclusion regarding the need to reconsider the assumption that overseas mobility generally led to cosmopolitanism holds ground, although it also depends on the degree of the fluidity of the social relations back home on the main- land; but the writer has given due emphasis to this important element in his analysis. Th

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2008

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