The Modern Indian Navy and the Indian Ocean: Studies in Indian Ocean

1990 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 398
Author(s):  
Ashok Kapur ◽  
Robert H. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Ocean Studies

Indian Ocean Studies and the ‘new thalassology’

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus P. M. Vink
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
First Century ◽  
Exciting Field ◽  
Sense Of Direction ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
World Systems Analysis ◽  
Annales School ◽  
Ocean Studies

This article explores the past, present, and possible future directions of the ‘‘new thalassology’’ [from the ancient Greek thalassa, ‘‘sea’’] and Indian Ocean studies from its humble beginnings in the 1950s and 1960s, and the cross-fertilization between the ‘Annales’ school and world-systems analysis in the 1980s, to its – admittedly incomplete – institutionalization in the early twenty-first century. In addition, it defines the numerous, often flexible and permeable, spatial and temporal boundaries or ‘frontiers’ of the Indian Ocean world(s). A final section surveys some of the potentialities and pitfalls of Indian Ocean studies and the new thalassology, with the strengths outweighing the weaknesses. The new thalassology undoubtedly presents some daunting challenges. It is to be hoped, however, that charting some of the ‘hundred frontiers’ of the globalized, inter-regional Indian Ocean seascape provides some sense of direction for this exciting field of scholarship and helps shape the future contours of maritime-based studies

scholarly journals The Indian Dimension of Aceh and Sumatra History

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Anthony Reid
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Maritime Boundary ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Banda Aceh ◽  
Ocean Studies

Indonesia’s maritime boundary with India, lying barely 100km from Banda Aceh, appears quiet and of little interest to policy-makers, in contrast to almost all the other contested boundaries with Malaysia, China, the Philippines, and Australia. India’s historical relations with Sumatra have also drawn less scholarly or popular attention than those with the Arab, Persian, and Turkish worlds, or with Java, the Peninsula, and China. It is one of the imbalances and justifying the “Indian Ocean’ in the title of International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies. It is also supported by arguing that northern Sumatra’s most important historical relationship outside Sumatra itself was for long with India. The time must come when this neighbourly maritime relationship is normalised in the context of improving Indonesia-India ties.

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