Sign-In
Cart
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia
Paperback
Australia & OceaniaIndian & South Asian History
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 0190922605
ISBN13: 9780190922603
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 15 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780190922603
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 15 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora.
Australia has long been an outpost of Anglo empires in the Indian Ocean world, today the site of military infrastructure central to the surveillance of 'Muslim-majority' countries across the region. Imperial knowledges from Australian territories contribute significantly to the Islamic-Western binary of the post- Cold War era. In narrating a history of Indian Ocean connections from the perspectives of those colonized by the British, Khatun highlights alternative contexts against which to consider accounts of non-white people.
Australianama challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books across the Anglophone world: the colonial myth that European knowledge traditions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonized. Arguing that Aboriginal and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast, complex libraries that belie colonized geographies, Khatun shows that stories in colonized tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past, present and future.
Australianama challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books across the Anglophone world: the colonial myth that European knowledge traditions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonized. Arguing that Aboriginal and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast, complex libraries that belie colonized geographies, Khatun shows that stories in colonized tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past, present and future.
Also in
Indian & South Asian History
Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967
Glass, Doyle
Paperback
$15.19
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
Dalrymple, William
Anand, Anita
Paperback
$18.99
India - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Stephen, Becky
Culture Smart!
Paperback
$16.14
The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
Roy, Arundhati
Paperback
$18.95
The New Tech Titans of China: Innovation Under Pressure in the World's Most Ambitious Economy
Fannin, Rebecca
Paperback
$18.99
Lions of Medina: The True Story of the Marines of Charlie 1/1 in Vietnam, 11-12 October 1967
Glass, Doyle
Paperback
$15.99
Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
Ramnath, Maia
Paperback
$18.99
Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition)
Roy, Arundhati
Paperback
$18.95
Rambutan: Recipes from Sri Lanka, Accompanying the Acclaimed New London Restaurant
Shanmugalingam, Cynthia
Hardcover
$33.25
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Soundararajan, Thenmozhi
Paperback
From $10.99
The Children of Mu: Relics of the Diaspora from the Lost Pacific Continent
Churchward, James
Paperback
$18.95
Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana
Crowley, Michael
Paperback
$23.70
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Bass, Gary J.
Paperback
$17.10
The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
Goodheart, Adam
Goodheart, Adam
Hardcover
$27.50
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
Moro, Javier
Lapierre, Dominique
Hardcover
$30.00
Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India
MacMillan, Margaret
Paperback
From $9.99
The 1921 Rebellion in Malabar: A Collection of Communist Writings
Narayanan, Nitheesh
Prashad, Vijay
Paperback
$16.24
Speaking of History: Conversations about India's Past and Present
Arora, Namit
Thapar, Romila
Paperback
$16.80
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
Anand, Anita
Paperback
$19.00
Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry
Hanighen, F. C.
Engelbrecht, H. C.
Paperback
$72.79
Slaves from the Tamil Coast and European Trade Around the World: 1547-1792
Stephen, S. Jeyaseela
Hardcover
$174.00
Eagles of Destiny: Volume 2 - Growth and Wars of the Pakistani Air Force 1956-1971
Shabbir, Usman
Mazhar, Yawar
Paperback
$28.45
Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language Movements After Independence
Columeau, Julien
Paperback
$52.50
Terror and Response: The India-Pakistan Proxy War 2008-2019
Badri-Maharaj, Sanjay
Pedroza, Everton
Paperback
$28.45
Indies Adventure; the Amazing Career of Afonso De Albuquerque, Captain-general and Governor of India (1509-1515)
Sanceau, Elaine
Paperback
$29.94
A Passage to Europe: The Astonishing Travels of an Indian Prince in the Age of Revolutions
Markovits, Rahul
Hardcover
$37.00
The Language Movement in Bangladesh: Translingualism and a Struggle for Rhetorical Sovereignty
Rabbi, Shakil
Hardcover
$180.00
Hindu Mythology: A Captivating Guide to Hindu Myths, Hindu Gods, and Hindu Goddesses
Clayton, Matt
Paperback
$16.10
A Year in Green Tea and Tuk-Tuks: My unlikely adventure creating an eco farm in Sri Lanka
Spowers, Rory
Paperback
$11.99
Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia
Judge, Rajbir Singh
Hardcover
$210.00
The Parliament of Pakistan: A History of Institution-Building and (Un)Democratic Practices, 1971-1977
Hussain, Mahboob
Paperback
$29.00
Punjab and the War of Independence 1857-1858: From Collaboration to Resistance
Sargana, Turab Ul Hassan
Paperback
$21.75
Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India
Sivaramakrishnan, K.
Paperback
$38.00
Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race
Hale, Christopher
Paperback
$25.64
Discovering Bhutan: Land of Gross National Happiness
Schofield, Janet Ward
Schofield, Janetward
Paperback
$18.00
Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic: Anxious Selves in Urban and Rural South India
Willford, Andrew C.
Hardcover
$112.00
The Language Movement in Bangladesh: Translingualism and a Struggle for Rhetorical Sovereignty
Rabbi, Shakil
Paperback
$56.00
The Mughal Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the Impact the Mughals Had on the History of India
History, Captivating
Paperback
$15.17
A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej: Copy#1
Cunningham, Joseph Davey
Hardcover
$49.94
The Battle of Saragarhi (1897): The Last Stand of Twenty-One Sikhs Against Overwhelming Odds
Whitaker, Jack
Paperback
$16.79