A bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters.
Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. He is also the author of Crossing the Bay of Bengal- The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. He has been a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and in 2017 was awarded a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship.
There is no disappointment here. Sunil Amrith consolidates his
reputation for intellectual sophistication, a good historian's
sensitivity to detail and a flare for large-scale tale-telling that
produces work as page-turning as a novel... He handles the big
questions fearlessly and elegantly, deploying oral history, a
variety of archives and private collections and a properly global
understanding...Read this book for information, for convincing
analytic nuance, as a humbling shake-up of one's worldview, and as
a series of heart-stopping tales.
*Times Higher Education*
In refocusing on the Bay and restoring a Braudelian sweep to its
history, this nicely written and meticulously researched study
could prove as timely as it is instructive.
*Literary Review*
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