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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2025

Kritish Rajbhandari
Affiliation:
Reed College, Oregon

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Achebe, Chinua, 64, 66
Afghanistan, 181
African diaspora, 163, 168, 206
Ahmed, Sara, 26, 43
on sexuality, 95, 98, 105, 111
on space and race, 8
anarchival drift, 57, 60, 99, 127, 163, 210
defined, 34, 18
anglophone, 52, 57
education, 36
novel, 28, 36
archive, 17, 21, 32, See also anarchival drift
Derrida on, 18
of indenture, 128
Arendt, Hannah, 168, 188
assimilation, 86
basin consciousness, 23
Baucom, Ian, 186, 190
Bharatiya Janata Party, 119
BIOT, See British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT)
Black Atlantic, 39, 163, 169, 213
Black migrancy, 157, 164
British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), 165, 170, 175
Burton, Richard (explorer), 77, 79, 87
Caribbean, 134
caste system, 72, 112, 155
Césaire, Aimé, 166
Chagos islands, 168, 172, 174
Chakravorty, Mrinalini, 103
Chamoiseau, Patrick, 199
Chatterjee, Partha, 102103
Cheah, Peng, 33
China, 2, 207
Cold War, 167, 169, 209
colonial archive
dictionaries, 53
racialization in, 61
colonial discourse
on race, 7477
colonial encounter, 68, 70, 7778
colonial gaze, 68, 82, 84
colonialism in East Africa, 71
communal boundaries, 73, 156, 159
comparison, 208209
coolitude, 132, 134
Cooppan, Vilashini, 92
cosmopolitanism, 29, 33, 57
creole, 38
critical, 34
in Indian Ocean studies, 34
creolization, 44, 134
decolonization, 65, 163, 170, 191
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth, 174, 209
Desai, Gaurav, 11, 13, 71
Devi, Ananda, 99
Indian Tango, 97, 101, 103104, 106118, 120126
diaspora, 97, 128, 131, See also African diaspora; South Asian diaspora
diaspora space, 131
Diego Garcia, 165, 172, 175
US base, 173
documentary, 187
extraterritorial, 5
Fanon, Frantz, 8, 60
Farah, Nuruddin, 6
film, 118, 187
Francophone, 11, 101
French colonization, 141
Gandhi, Indira, 170
Gandhi, M. K., 95, 112, 117
genre, 15
Ghosh, Amitav, 44
Ibis Chrestomathy, The, 44, 5257
In an Antique Land, 1216
Sea of Poppies, 2729, 3436, 38, 4144, 127, 198
Glissant, Edouard, 132, 198
Gopinath, Gayatri, 114
Gulf war, 173
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 22, 60, 92
By the Sea, 58, 91
Desertion, 60, 6370, 7889
Paradise, 30, 4547, 4952, 66
Hartman, Saidiya, 202
haunting, 16, 92, 127, 136
historical fiction, 29, 66
postcolonial, 68
realism in, 32, 52, 68
Hobson-Jobson, 53
Hofmeyr, Isabel, 11, 236
home, 96, 108
human rights, 169, 188
hybridity, 15, 43, 163
imperialism, 181, 206
indenture, 71, 94, 113, 127, 142
abolition of, 117
memories of, 97
women in, 126
Indian Emigration Act of 1922, 117
Indian Ocean Association for Regional Cooperation, 2, 12, 208
Indian Ocean studies, 12, 18
Indian Ocean trade, 71
indigeneity, 91, 163
interracial relation, 61, 63, 161
anxiety over, 76
in history, 7273
in literature, 7374
sexual, 89
intertextuality, 47, 118
Islam, 45, 47, 61, 70, 83
Jameson, Frederic, 7
Kenya
colonial history, 157
Kenyatta, Jomo, 153154, 157
Kikuyu, 153154, 157
Land Ordinance of 1915, 158
language, 37
language politics, 32
in Mauritius, 138
lascars, 19, 4041
Lionnet, Françoise, 11, 15, 38, 124, 205
Lowe, Lisa, 3, 6162, 76
Macaulay, Thomas, 74
Maldives, 178
Marx, Karl, 145
Mauritius, 100, 113, 116
cultural politics, 137141
sugar industry, 143
Mbembe, Achille, 60
Mehta, Deepa, 114
melancholia, 69
metafiction, 65, 68, 88
Middle Passage, 190, 197, 201
Mignolo, Walter, 31, 34
migration. See also indenture
India to East Africa, 7172
militarization, 209
militourism, 182
mirror stage, 108
modernity, 32, 102, 116
Mufti, Aamir, 28, 36
multiculturalism, 137
multilingualism, 2930, 34, 44, 49
Muñoz, José Esteban, 120
Mustafa, Sophia, 148
In the Shadow of Kirinyaga, 131, 162
The Tanganyika Way, 151
Mwangi, Evan, 68
nation, 20
postcolonial, 60, 92, 133, 163
nationalism, 8
East Africa, 91, 133, 148
and gender, 95, 102104, 127
Hindu, 103
and indenture, 116117
India, 95, 117, 119, 122
Mauritius, 133
and race, 149
Tangayika, 149
Nazareth, Peter, 6
Négritude, 134
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 6, 84
Nordvaer, 196197, 204
Nyerere, Julius, 149151
Orientalism, 77
Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo
The Dragonfly Sea, 207
paranoid reading, 89
Patel, Shenaz, 59, 183184
Le silence des Chagos, 166, 183, 190205
Pilger, John, 172
Stealing a Nation, 189
postcolonial writing, 67, 22, 68
Povinelli, Elizabeth, 62
Puar, Jasbir, 97, 124
Pyamootoo, Barlen
Bénarès, 131, 135137, 141148
queer diaspora, 97, 114
racial hierarchy, 7475, 133, 149, 154, 208
racialization, 5, 84, 91, 163, 202
racism, 172
anti-Asian, 148
anti-Black, 138, 157158, 201
Ray, Sangeeta, 98, 103, 120
Ray, Satyajit, 118, 124
refugee, 203
Repo, Jemima, 105
reproductive heteronormativity, 104
romance
as mode of writing, 15, 18
Rushdie, Salman, 6, 92, 129
sari, 121126
scale, 9
jumping, 7, 9, 33, 93
ocean as, 911
sega, 194
sexuality, 95, 98, 105
Sharpe, Christina, 200, 205
Sheriff, Abdul, 8, 90
ship, 19, 95, 127, 169, 197205
ship-siblinghood, 127, 198
slavery, 141, 144, 167, 190
South Asian diaspora, 96, 99
in East Africa, 132, 161
of indenture, 132, See also indenture
Soviet Union, 170
Steiner, Tina, 11, 6162, 151
Stoler, Ann Laura, 61
stream of consciousness, 82
Swadeshi movement, 119
Swahili
culture, 82
language, 49
sources, 47
Tagore, Rabindranath, 99, 118
Home and the World, 119121
Tanganyika, 148
citizenship bill, 149151
Tejani, Bahadur, 6, 73, 133
testimonial novel, 183, 185
testimonio, 184
Tippu Tip
autobiography, 4849
Torabully, Khal, 134, 165
translation, 29, 31, 52, 57
transnationalism, 7, 12, 92
Vassanji, M. G., 59, 73, 222
war on terror, 173
whiteness, 79
world literature, 8, 33
Zanzibar, 1, 8
revolution, 92, 148
Zong massacre, 186

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  • Book: The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction
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  • Kritish Rajbhandari, Reed College, Oregon
  • Book: The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction
  • Online publication: 19 December 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009627764.010
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