Terra Aqua

Sudipta Sen is a professor of history and Middle East/South Asia studies, University of California, Davis. He is an author of Empire of Free Trade: The English East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace (1998); Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India (2002); Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River (2019) and a co-editor of the Routledge Ocean and Island Studies book series. May Joseph is the founder of Harmattan Theatre and a professor of social science at Pratt Institute, and an author of the books Ghosts of Lumumba (2020); Sealog: Indian Ocean to New York (2019); Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination (2013); and Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (1999). Joseph is also co-editor of Performing Hybridity (1999). She co-edits three book series from Routledge: Critical Climate Studies, Ocean and Island Studies, and Kaleidoscope: Ethnography, Art, Architecture and Archaeology. Joseph creates site specific performances along Dutch and Portuguese maritime routes exploring climate issues.

Introduction

1. Kerala Coast and the Environmental Ethics of Precarity

2. A Monsoon Miracle: Naming and Knowing the Mudbanks of Malabar

3. "Source to Mouth": Engineers, Rivers, Coasts and the Bengal Delta (1750–1918)

4. Living Paradox in Riverine Bangladesh: Whiteheadian Perspectives on Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir

5. Earth, Water, Salt: Amphibious Pasts of the Lower Gangetic Delta