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This book is
an anthology of key essays that
foregrounds coasts, islands, and
shorelines as central to the scholarship
on the oceanic environment and climate
across South Asia.
The volume is a collaborative effort
amongst historians, anthropologists, and
environmentalists to further understand
the lifeworlds of the South Asian littoral
that are neither fully aquatic or
terrestrial, and inescapably both. Terra
Aqua invokes a ‘third surface’ located in
the interstice of land and water—deltas,
estuaries, tidelands, beaches, swamps,
sandbanks, and mudflats—and engages in a
radical reconceptualization of coastal and
shoreline terrains. The book explores
uniquely endangered habitats and emergent
templates of survival against rising seas
and climatic disturbances with particular
focus on the Bengal and Malabar
coastlines.
A critical, transdisciplinary contribution
to the study of climate change in South
Asia, Terra Aqua examines salinity and
submergence, coastal erosion, subterranean
degradation, and the depletion of littoral
lifeways impacting marine communities and
biospheres. It will be of particular
interest to scholars of environment
studies, ecology and climate change in the
Global South, hydrology, geography, ocean
and island studies, environmental justice,
colonialism, and imperial and maritime
history.
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Contributors
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction
Littoral Frontiers Amphibious Terrains The
Five Chapters Lifeworlds of the Terra Aqua
References 1 Kerala Coast and the
Environmental Ethics of Precarity The
Climate Is Personal Toward a Blue and
Brown History Nervous Archipelago
Disappearing Ecologies Archipelagic
Awakening The Torrent Climate Anomalies
Terror of the Deluge Environmental Ethics
of Precarity Bodhisattvas By the Sea Notes
References 2 A Monsoon Miracle: Naming and
Knowing the Mudbanks of Malabar I The
Malabar Mudbanks II Narratives of
Exception III Describing Difference IV
Conclusion Notes References 3 “Source to
Mouth”: Engineers, Rivers, Coasts and the
Bengal Delta (1750–1918) Introduction
Surveyor and Statistician Change Leads to
Centralization Notes References 4 Living
Paradox in Riverine Bangladesh:
Whiteheadian Perspectives On Ganga Devi
and Khwaja Khijir Whitehead Within the
Riverine Context Ganga Ma and Khwaja
Khijir: The Event of Paradox Khidr as
Varuna/Shiva And/or Khidr as Ganga Islamic
and Greek Prefiguration of Paradox Paradox
in the Pathways of the Char? Conclusion
Notes References 5 Earth, Water, Salt:
Amphibious Pasts of the Lower Gangetic
Delta The Bengal Delta Ancient Peat Mud,
Fish, and Tides Salt and Sweat Enduring
Lifeways Epilogue
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