Authors:Markus Vink Pages: 13 - 37 Abstract: As an exercise in trans-oceanic history, this article focuses on the Dutch Indian Ocean World in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from the Dutch East India Company or VOC’s permanent colony at Cape Town, South Africa, in the Far West to its seasonal trading factory at Canton (Guangzhou), in the Far East. It argues that the ‘seismic change’ after 1760 noted by Michael Pearson and associated with the British move inland from their Bengal ‘bridgehead’ should be extended to the contemporary polycentric Dutch expansion into the interior of, most notably, South Africa, Ceylon, Java, and Eastern Indonesia. Demographic measuring points include the number of Dutch citizens and subjects, comprising European settlers, mixed peoples, and indigenous populations; and: the size and composition of the population of central nodal places in the Dutch Indian Ocean thalassocratic network in the late seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries. By the end of the period, both ‘John Company’ and ‘Jan Kompenie’ effectively were, to some extent, reversing the colonial gaze inland turning from maritime merchants into landlords and tax collectors. These seismic changes with multiple epicenters were the harbinger of tidal waves about to sweep both the littoral and interior of the modern Indian Ocean World. PubDate: 2019-05-09 DOI: 10.26443/jiows.v3i1.52 Issue No:Vol. 3, No. 1 (2019)
Authors:Radhika Seshan Pages: 38 - 52 Abstract: This paper focuses on the port of Chaul, on the west coast of India, in the modern- day state of Maharashtra, to study the ways in which the port as urban settlement, and as a town, in both its layout and in its monuments, reflected the orientation towards the twin categories of land and sea, but leaning perhaps more towards the land. It takes as its starting point Michael Pearson’s concept of ports as ‘gateways’ and ‘hubs’ and tries to examine the multiple networks of trade that were centred in this port. PubDate: 2019-05-09 DOI: 10.26443/jiows.v3i1.54 Issue No:Vol. 3, No. 1 (2019)
Authors:Editors of the JIOWS Pages: 82 - 103 Abstract: Since the late 1960s, Michael Pearson’s work has been at the forefront of the study of the Indian Ocean World. Pearson’s unparalleled contribution to the field has long been recognized by his pears. In 1981, the famed historian of Goa, Teotonio R. de Souza, wrote in an introduction to one of Pearson’s books that it ‘will stand out as the best effort on the part of a non-Indian historian to do justice to the Indian component of Indo-Portuguese history.’ In 2004, Pearson spoke to this acclaim in an interview with Frederick Noronha, a journalist-publisher based in Goa. He said: ‘Certainly this is what I have wanted to achieve when I write about the Portuguese in India: to locate them in the Indian context in which they operated and by which they were constrained. This is a deliberate attempt to counter the triumphalism, and even racism, of much Portuguese writing on their empire.’ But Pearson’s influence was not limited to Goa and the coastal western India. Across nearly four decades of work, Pearson was always a leader in developing the longue durée approach to studying the Indian Ocean World.To honor this influence, the editors of the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies have compiled an exhaustive bibliography of Michael Pearson’s work. They have also appended short descriptions to some of his most important texts. Limited space meant that abstracts could not be attached to each reference. The editors decided that where they existed, abstracts written by Pearson or his co-editors would be prioritized. They then selected some of his works without abstracts to write their own abstracts or mini reviews (indicated with **). Particular prominence has been given to some of his earlier, lesser-known works. The intention was to use the space to reflect the diversity of Pearson’s research, while highlighting some of its core themes. PubDate: 2019-05-09 DOI: 10.26443/jiows.v3i1.56 Issue No:Vol. 3, No. 1 (2019)
Authors:Julia McClure, Amitava Chowdhury, Sarah Easterby-Smith, Norberto Ferreras, Omar Gueye, Meha Priyadarshini, Steven Serels, Jelmer Vos Pages: 53 - 81 Abstract: The following is an edited transcript of a roundtable that took place at the University of Glasgow in September 2018. The roundtable was organized by Dr. Julia McClure in conjunction with the Poverty Research Network’s conference - Beyond Development: The Local Visions of Global Poverty. That conference brought into focus the ways in which the global and local levels meet at the site of poverty and highlighted the different conceptions on the global are generated from the perspective of poverty. The roundtable brought together leading scholars from Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America to take stock of global history as a field, to consider the role of existing centres of knowledge production, and to assess new directions for the field. DOI: 10.26443/jiows.v3i1.58 Issue No:Vol. 3, No. 1
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