The Indian Ocean - Michael Pearson [263]
Christian 175;
Islamic 80–1, 175–7, 244–8
Red Sea, navigation in 17–18, 36–7, 110;
early trade in 51;
winds in 20–1
religion, coastal 39–41;
see also Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam
replicas 1, 265–6
ressac 28
Réunion 152, 244–5, 260–1;
tourism in 277
rites at sea 107–9;
Christian 178–81;
Hindu 178–81;
Muslim 178–81;
Portuguese 177–8
river ports see fluvial ports
river travel 111, 184, 202, 242–3
Roberts, Emma 226–7
Romans, Roman trade 51–2
Round the World racers 265
Royal Navy 191
Rukhkh 107
Safavid Iran 130
St Thomas 59–60
St Expedit 244–5
St Paul and Amsterdam islands 221, 279
Santa Maria do Monte [ship] 184
Sayyid Ahmad bin Sumeyt 245
Sayyid Fadl 245
Scindia line 205, 253
sea, perceptions of 1–2;
and oceans 4–5
sea levels 24–5
sea travel see voyages by sea
Severin, Tim 22, 67, 68, 210, 265–6
Seychelles 259, 261
Shaykh Yusuf 176
ships, construction 185;
crews 185–6;
early 48–9;
sizes 185;
speeds 186–7, 210;
see also barques, bulk, car carriers, cargo carriers, container ships, dhows, naus, oil tankers, steamships, tramp steamers
shipwrecks, see rites at sea
shrimps see prawns
silver see bullion
Sindbad the Sailor 102–3, 108–9
Singapore 251–2, 262–3
Siraf 41, 93, 96
slaves, slave trade 85, 152, 156, 199, 222–3
Socotra see Suqutra
Sofala 176
Sohar [replica dhow] 22
Spate, O.H.K. 4, 10–11
spice production areas 82
spice trade 82–4;
Dutch and 145–7;
Portuguese attempt to monopolise 121, 127–8, 138
Sri Lanka 54–5, 136, 146;
Buddhism in 173
Srivijaya 102, 123
steamships 201–3;
coastal 242;
conquer nature 200, 205–6;
crews of 209–10;
improvements 206–7;
life on board 207–8, 230–3, 234–7;
supplant sailing ships 208–9;
subsidies for 203–4;
see also speeds at sea, tramp steamers
Steensgaard, N. 6, 152
storms 57–8, 180–1, 229–30, 240;
see also rites at sea
strategy 281–6
Suez Canal 210–11;
effects on shipping 211, 230–2;
favourable for British 211;
passage through 238–9
sufis 245–6, 248
sugar 259–61
Sulaiman 15, 16, 158, 161, 162–3, 183
Sumer see Mesopotamia
Sunbeam [ship] 233–4
superstitions see rites
Suqutra 258, 259
Surat 34, 134, 159, 160, 164, 166, 182–3
Swahili coast 54, 84–6, 92, 96, 163;
Indians in 219–20, 250;
Islam in 245–7;
Portuguese in 129–30, 132, 140, 153–4;
tourism in 276;
see also conversions
tea 168
Thapar, Romila 7
Thesiger, Wilfred 42
Thomaz, L.F.F.R. 123, 125
Tibbetts, G.R. 72
tides 25
tobacco 168, 195
Tompsitt, Mrs 191–2, 238
Torens [barque] 23
tourists, tourism 42–3, 273–7
trade, long distance 86–9, 193–4, 194–6
tramp steamers 208, 253–6
transfrontierfolk 154
travel, effects of 236–43;
see also voyages by sea
travellers' accounts 57–8;
see also voyages by sea
Trench, Frederic 227, 241–2
Triumph of Righteousness [dhow] 244
Turner, Victor 236
Twain, Mark 209, 237
Varadarajan, Lotika 57
Venice, Venetians 100
Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie [Dutch East India Company; VOC]
see Dutch Villiers, Alan 23–4, 112, 208–9, 210, 244, 252, 256
Virji Vorah 166
voyages by sea described 57–8, 109–2, 181–4, 187–9, 225–9, 253–5;
see also boredom at sea, food on board ship,
steamships, storms, rites at sea
Wadias 218
'Walers' 196
Wall, Patrick 282
waves 25–6
Whyte, Richard James 230
winds 19–24
see also monsoons, storms
Winton, Tim 37, 273–4
wives of sailors 112
Woodhouse, Joseph 238
Woolf, Leonard 231, 233, 237–8
Xavier, St Francis 173, 175, 176, 177
Young, Gavin 210, 254–6, 258
Zafari see Dofar
Zain-al-Din 124, 126
Zamzam water 107
Zanzibar 20, 25, 54, 245, 247, 258, 259;
Indians in 219–20;
in nineteenth century 191;
and slave trade 222–3
Zayton see Quanzhou
Zheng He 86, 90–1, 114
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Series editor's preface
Preface
Map of the Indian Ocean
Introduction
1 Deep structure
2 Humans and the sea
3 The beginning of the ocean
4 Muslims in the Indian Ocean
5 Europeans in an Indian Ocean world
6 The early modern Indian Ocean world
7 Britain and the ocean
8 History in the ocean
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
1 A Terry Dinghee