Böcker av Sujit Sivasundaram

Starting from the ocean and from the forgotten histories of ocean-facing communities, this is a new history of the making of our world.

How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? This title explores how the British organized the process of "islanding," aiming to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography.