Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1 Oceanic Histories: from the Terrestrial to the Maritime -- 2 Thinking With the Ocean: a Quartet of Conversations -- 3 Oceanic Encounters With the "Other" in the Age of Empire: late-Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts of Indian Muslims -- 4 Indians in South Africa Before Indenture: a Story of Deep Oceanic Connections -- Index