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Migrants and the Making of Indian Ocean Cultures

Migrants and the Making of Indian Ocean Cultures © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156921009X458073 African and Asian Studies 8 (2009) 201-203 brill.nl/aas A F R I C A N A N D A S I A N S T U D I E S Migrants and the Making of Indian Ocean Cultures Introduction Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, London WC1B 5DS, England E-mail: shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk For thousands of years, the Indian Ocean has been a space for cultural exchanges between peoples of diff erent races and faiths. Arab, Indian, Malay and Chinese oceanic commerce had to compete with European participants from the 16th century onwards. Th e Lusitanians who turned the Indian Ocean into a Portuguese lake for an entire century, ushered other Europeans into commerce in Asia. From the 17th to the mid-20th centuries, the Dutch, French and the British became major players in these waters widening the spectrum of cross-cultural contact. From 1602, both the Dutch East India Company and West India Company began to threaten Portugal’s maritime superiority. Portuguese colonies in Asia, Africa and the Americas became sites of war between two European nations struggling for supremacy in commerce. In the late 18th century, however, Dutch http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African and Asian Studies Brill

Migrants and the Making of Indian Ocean Cultures

Silva Jayasuriya, Shihan de
African and Asian Studies , Volume 8 (3): 201 – Jan 1, 2009
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156921009X458073 African and Asian Studies 8 (2009) 201-203 brill.nl/aas A F R I C A N A N D A S I A N S T U D I E S Migrants and the Making of Indian Ocean Cultures Introduction Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, London WC1B 5DS, England E-mail: shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk For thousands of years, the Indian Ocean has been a space for cultural exchanges between peoples of diff erent races and faiths. Arab, Indian, Malay and Chinese oceanic commerce had to compete with European participants from the 16th century onwards. Th e Lusitanians who turned the Indian Ocean into a Portuguese lake for an entire century, ushered other Europeans into commerce in Asia. From the 17th to the mid-20th centuries, the Dutch, French and the British became major players in these waters widening the spectrum of cross-cultural contact. From 1602, both the Dutch East India Company and West India Company began to threaten Portugal’s maritime superiority. Portuguese colonies in Asia, Africa and the Americas became sites of war between two European nations struggling for supremacy in commerce. In the late 18th century, however, Dutch

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