India in Africa, Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms

List of Contributors

289 Contributors Gwyn Campbell is Professor of History at McGill University and a Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History. Born in Madagascar, he served as an academic consultant for the South African government in the first phase of inter-governmental meetings leading to the 1997 formation of an Indian Ocean regional association. His publications include An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire and (as editor) Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. Devarakshanam Govinden is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has written on Gcina Mhlophe, and others. John C. Hawley is Professor of English and Chair of Department at Santa Clara University. He is author of Amitav Ghosh: An Introduction and editor or co-editor of eleven books, including Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies and The Postcolonial and the Global (with Revathi Krishnaswamy). He is Associate Editor of the South Asian Review. Chapurukha M. Kusimba is Curator of African Archaeology and Ethnology at the Field Museum and Adjunct Associate Professor at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of The Rise and Fall of the Swahili States; East African Archaeology: Foragers, Potters, Smiths, and Traders (with Sibel B. Kusimba); Unwrapping Textile Traditions of Madagascar ; and James W. Vanstone: A Legend in Arctic and Museum Anthropology (with Charles Stanish). John McLeod is Associate Professor of History at the University of Louisville and Honorary Rajvansi Genealogist of the Rajvara Heritage Institution at Rajkuman College, Rajkot. He is author of Sovereignty, Power, Control : Politics in the States of Western India, 1916–1947 and The History of India, and editor (with Kenneth X. Robbins) of African Elites in India. Savita Nair is Assistant Professor of History and of Asian Studies at Furman University. She is revising her manuscript “Gujarat, East Africa, and the Indian Diaspora,” on early twentieth-century Gujarti merchant family migrations , as part of a project that expands the historical geography of South Asia and makes migrants central rather than marginal to history writing. Pashington Obeng is Assistant Professor of Religion at Wellesley College. He is author of Asante Catholicism: Religious and Cultural Reproduction among 290 the Akan of Ghana and Asante Women Dancers: Architects of Power Realignment in Corpus Christi. Rahul C. Oka is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology , University of Notre Dame Du Lac. Thangam Ravindranathan is Assistant Professor of French Studies at Brown University. Anjali Gera Roy is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her books include Three Great African Novelists; Wole Soyinka: An Anthology of Recent Criticism ; Rohinton Mistry: An Anthology of Recent Criticism; and Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Resettlement. Dana Rush is Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jaspal Singh is Assistant Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Gwenda Vander Steene is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Sciences of Culture at Ghent University. Contributors ...