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The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits, commodities and cosmologies circulated on the wings of the monsoon winds. The forced and voluntary migrations of Asians and Africans across the Indian Ocean littoral over several centuries have reverberated in the memories, literatures, travelogues and religious, architectural, and socio-political imaginations of both the regions. And, they continue to do so in various forms and platforms.This book explores nuances of various narratives on these long-term transcultural exchanges with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and Africans have been narrated in South Asian history and culture in order to unravel the nuanced layers of reflexive, rhetorical, stereotypical, populist, racialist, racist and casteist frameworks that informed diverse narratives in vernacular texts, songs, films and newspaper reports. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary approaches of narratology, Afro-Asian studies, and Indian Ocean studies, the contributors enunciate how the African lives in South Asia have been selectively remembered or systematically forgotten. Through multi-sited ethnographies, multilingual archival researches and interdisciplinary frameworks, each chapter provides theoretical engagements on the basis of empirical research in such regions as Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Hyderabad and Mumbai as well as in Sri Lanka. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture

The formation of Islamic law in the Indian Ocean littoral, c. 615-1000 CE / Mahmood Kooria -- Legal diglossia, lexical borrowing, and mixed judicial systems in early Islamic Java and Sumatra / Tom Hoogervorst -- Borrowing Adat and adopting Islam : the Mandarese records on the creation and Islamization of Adat in West Sulawesi / Muhammad Buana -- Sharīa translated Persian documents in English courts / Nandini Chatterjee -- Possibilities and pitfalls of cosmopolitanism : two treaties from Northern Somalia in the late nineteenth century / Nicholas W. Stephenson Smith -- Islamic legal crossings and debates in Cambodia : evidence from fatāwā and French colonial archives in the Early 20th century / Philipp Bruckmayr -- The Interplay of two Sharīa penal codes : a case from Gayo Society, Indonesia / Arfiansyah Arfnor -- Colonial nostalgia, conspiracy theories and uneasy quiescence : Muslim newspaper commentary on the debate on Kadhis' courts in contemporary Tanzania / Felicitas Becker with Shabani Mwakalinga.