Nidhi Mahajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nidhi Mahajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nidhi |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahajan |
| SIGNATURE | MAHAJAN N |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1608-7609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Afro-Indian Migrations and the Indianization of East Africa, 5000 BCE–1900 CE
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand for free,…
Locked Up in Lockdown
This essay traces how sailors aboard wooden sailing vessels (dhows) negotiate mobility across the Indian Ocean, revealing their precarious conditions preceding the COVID-19 pandemic that came to the fore after 2020. Focusing on Yusuf, a sailor in captivity in Iran during the pandemic, the essay suggests that the pandemic shone new light on preexisting patronage relations. However, these relations were creatively harnessed by laborers in times of …
Notes on an archipelagic ethnography: Ships, seas, and islands of relation in the Indian Ocean
This paper explores a mobile anthropological method, or what I call an archipelagic ethnography. This archipelagic ethnography focuses on relationality to think through not only islandness and archipelagoes—land, ship, and sea—but also considers relationality as a starting point for examining connections across space. Based on over ten years of ethnographic research among dhow sailors in the Indian Ocean, I argue that navigation, social interacti…
Seasons of sail
Historians have viewed the monsoon as bringing unity to the Indian Ocean as it enabled the movement of wooden sailing vessels, or dhows, that transported goods and people across the littoral. These days, contemporary dhows from the Gulf of Kachchh in western India traverse old routes across the Indian Ocean. These vahans are mechanized and no longer depend on the wind for movement. Yet, a monsoon temporality continues to undergird quotidian socia…
Dhow Itineraries
Ever since 9/11, dhows, or Indian Ocean sailing vessels, have been viewed as inherently threatening to national and international security, as government authorities suspect that they are used to smuggle weapons and militants. Most recently, dhows that transport charcoal from Somalia to the United Arab Emirates have been implicated in funding al-Shabaab, a militant group. Rather than taking a presentist view, this article argues that these securi…
Notes on an archipelagic ethnography: Ships, seas, and islands of relation in the Indian Ocean
This paper explores a mobile anthropological method, or what I call an archipelagic ethnography. This archipelagic ethnography focuses on relationality to think through not only islandness and archipelagoes—land, ship, and sea—but also considers relationality as a starting point for examining connections across space. Based on over ten years of ethnographic research among dhow sailors in the Indian Ocean, I argue that navigation, social interacti…
Dhow Itineraries
Ever since 9/11, dhows, or Indian Ocean sailing vessels, have been viewed as inherently threatening to national and international security, as government authorities suspect that they are used to smuggle weapons and militants. Most recently, dhows that transport charcoal from Somalia to the United Arab Emirates have been implicated in funding al-Shabaab, a militant group. Rather than taking a presentist view, this article argues that these securi…
Dhow Itineraries
Ever since 9/11, dhows, or Indian Ocean sailing vessels, have been viewed as inherently threatening to national and international security, as government authorities suspect that they are used to smuggle weapons and militants. Most recently, dhows that transport charcoal from Somalia to the United Arab Emirates have been implicated in funding al-Shabaab, a militant group. Rather than taking a presentist view, this article argues that these securi…
Seasons of sail
Historians have viewed the monsoon as bringing unity to the Indian Ocean as it enabled the movement of wooden sailing vessels, or dhows, that transported goods and people across the littoral. These days, contemporary dhows from the Gulf of Kachchh in western India traverse old routes across the Indian Ocean. These vahans are mechanized and no longer depend on the wind for movement. Yet, a monsoon temporality continues to undergird quotidian socia…
Notes on an archipelagic ethnography: Ships, seas, and islands of relation in the Indian Ocean
This paper explores a mobile anthropological method, or what I call an archipelagic ethnography. This archipelagic ethnography focuses on relationality to think through not only islandness and archipelagoes—land, ship, and sea—but also considers relationality as a starting point for examining connections across space. Based on over ten years of ethnographic research among dhow sailors in the Indian Ocean, I argue that navigation, social interacti…
Afro-Indian Migrations and the Indianization of East Africa, 5000 BCE–1900 CE
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand for free,…
Locked Up in Lockdown
This essay traces how sailors aboard wooden sailing vessels (dhows) negotiate mobility across the Indian Ocean, revealing their precarious conditions preceding the COVID-19 pandemic that came to the fore after 2020. Focusing on Yusuf, a sailor in captivity in Iran during the pandemic, the essay suggests that the pandemic shone new light on preexisting patronage relations. However, these relations were creatively harnessed by laborers in times of …
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Maritime Security and History (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)