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_qcloth : acid-free paper
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100 1 _aDesai, Gaurav Gajanan.
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245 1 0 _aCommerce with the universe :
_bAfrica, India, and the Afrasian imagination /
_cGaurav Desai.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c2013.
300 _axiv, 291 pages ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.
505 0 _aOcean and narration -- Old world orders: Amitav Ghosh and the writing of nostalgia -- Post-manichaean aesthetics: Asian texts and lives -- Through Indian eyes: travel and the performance of ethnicity -- Commerce as romance: Mehta, Madhvani, Manji -- Lighting a candle on Mount Kilimanjaro: partnering with Nyerere -- Anti anti-Asianism and the politics of dissent: M. G. Vassanji's The gunny sack -- Coda: Entangled lives.
650 0 _aIndic literature
_xHistory and criticism.
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650 0 _aNational characteristics, East Indian, in literature.
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650 0 _aEast African literature (English)
_xHistory and criticism.
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650 0 _aEast Indians
_zAfrica, East.
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