Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
Monday, November 3rd, 2014
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, November 3, 2014 | 6:00PM - 8:00PM | External Event, Council Chambers (AA 160) University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus |
Description
The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal-India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia-are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating migration and environmental history Sunil Amrith gives an account of the Bay and the diasporas who have inhabited it, with a particular focus on the Tamil diaspora.
Sunil Amrith is Reader in Modern Asian History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His work focuses on the circulation of people, ideas, and institutions between South and Southeast Asia. His most recent book is Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Harvard, 2013). He is currently working on the environmental history of India’s eastern seaboard, supported by the European Research Council.
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