Contents

pp v-vi

List of Contributors

pp vii-x

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Conceptualizing the Region: Past and Present

pp 15-16

1 - Locating Asia, Arresting Asia: Grappling with “The Epistemology that Kills”

pp 17-35

2 - Imagining “Maritime Asia”

pp 36-59

3 - In Search of an Asian Vision: The Asian Relations Conference of 1947

pp 60-90

Part II - Conceptualizing Asia through the Prism of Europe

pp 91-92

4 - In Pursuit of Knowledge from Asia: François Valentijn on the Hindu Social Divisions in the Coromandel Region, c. Seventeenth–Eighteenth Century

pp 93-124

5 - British Romantic Poetics and the Idea of Asia

pp 125-144

Part III - Networks of Knowledge Across the Indian Ocean

pp 145-146

6 - An Indian Ocean Ribā?: War and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Ponnāni, Malabar Coast

pp 147-174

7 - Travelling Spirits: Revisiting Melaka's Keramat from the Indian Ocean

pp 175-212

Part IV - Histories and Geographies of Pilgrimage in Asia

pp 213-214

8 - Transmissions, Translations, Reconstitutions: Revisiting Geographies of Buddha Relics in the Southern Asian Worlds

pp 215-250

9 - The Politics of Pilgrimage: Reception of Hajj among South Asian Muslims

pp 251-272

Part V - Trans-Local Dynamics and Intra-Asian Connections across Space and Time

pp 273-274

10 - Sanskritic Buddhism as an Asian Universalism

pp 275-333

11 - Interconnectedness and Mobility in the Middle Ages/Nowadays: From Baghdad to Chang'an and from Istanbul to Tokyo

pp 334-357

12 - Connecting Networks and Orienting Space: Relocating Nguyen Cochinchina between East and Southeast Asia in the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries

pp 358-392

13 - The Highlands of West Sumatra and their Maritime Trading Connections

pp 393-424

Index

pp 425-438