People of the Maldive Islands.

Tharamangalam, Joseph; Maloney, Clarence

doi:10.2307/2756942

Cited by 3 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Perhaps this suggests that the Arab merchants leading long-distance maritime trade with China starting from about AD 800 in the Indian Ocean had not entered the Maldives. According to historical research, AD 1153 was the earliest period in which Islam was introduced into the Maldives (Gibb 1929: 98-100, Forbes 1981, Maloney 2013). This does not suggest that the Maldives were fully Islamised at that time.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese Ceramic Exchange in the Maldives and the Indian Ocean, AD 900-1900

Zhang

2023

Imperial Horizons of the Silk Roads

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As one of the major nodes in the maritime route between ancient China and the Islamic world, the Maldives have drawn the interest of numerous archaeologists and historians due to their strategic importance in the commerce of the Indian Ocean. Archaeological surveys and excavations have found Chinese ceramics dated from the Tang through Qing dynasties in the Maldives since the 1970s. This paper first introduces the Maldives sites and uses aoristic analysis to examine changing trends in the trade of Chinese ceramics imported from the Buddhist Period to the Islamic Period. Second, it discusses the changing roles that the Maldives played in long-distance maritime trade of the Indian Ocean during 900-1900 AD.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese Ceramic Exchange in the Maldives and the Indian Ocean, AD 900-1900

Zhang

2023

Imperial Horizons of the Silk Roads

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The excessive powers of the president included appointing cabinet and government positions, banishing political dissidents to the outer islands, approving laws, granting amnesty, conferring titles, and proclaiming temporary orders (Luithui & Phadnis, 1985, pp. 38–41; see also Maloney, 2013, p. 202). The judiciary was also under the power of the president (Rasheed, 2014, p. 20).…”

Section: Increased Post‐independence Authoritarianism Under Nasirmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…21–22). Furthermore, atoll elections were rescinded and atoll chiefs were instead appointed by the home department since 1975 (Maloney, 2013, pp. 206–208).…”

Section: Increased Post‐independence Authoritarianism Under Nasirmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the absence of laws or state resources for regulation or development, tourism became spearheaded by the private sector (Rasheed, 2013, p. 127). Nasir's family members occupied senior government positions and had interests in several tourist islands and Nasir himself created travel companies (Maloney, 2013, p. 208). The foundations for rent‐seeking were thus laid under Nasir as policies beneficial for tourism would personally benefit the president and his cronies (Rasheed, 2013, p. 128).…”

Section: Increased Post‐independence Authoritarianism Under Nasirmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Religion and authoritarianism in the Maldives: Is another authoritarian reversal in the Maldives imminent?

Bhim

2024

World Affairs

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Maldives commenced its transition to democracy after its first multiparty elections in 2008. This was challenging due to the Maldives being a Muslim nation, its authoritarian legacy of monarchical rule before independence, and by dictatorship after independence. This article analyzes the postindependence rule periods of Ibrahim Nasir and Maumoom Abdul Gayoom, which were akin to one‐man dictatorships. The third autocratic president postindependence, Abdulla Yameen, was an electoral authoritarian as he implemented authoritarian measures in a multi‐party context. I assess if religion provided political legitimacy to these authoritarian leaders or if religion was exploited by leaders to gain political support and civic spaces. Theories of authoritarianism, religious populism, electoral authoritarianism, as well as concepts of the ulema‐state alliance and the rentier state are utilized. In addition to their authoritarian legacy, democratic presidents like Mohamed Nasheed and Mohamed Solih had grappled with politicians' manipulation of religion through political Islam, Islamic nationalism, and fundamentalism to derail democracy by equating it to Westernization. These events resonate with Samuel Huntington's description of the conflict between the West and Islam as a clash of civilizations. Crimes against liberal thinkers by Islamic extremists are an added challenge. There is a real danger of another authoritarian reversal in the Maldives.

show abstract

“…Before electoral politics and a multi-party governance system, islands would generally get what they were given by national presidents and their close circle of national planners, and before this by the Sultan. At the island level, resources such as houses would be allocated to island inhabitants by the island chief, who had control over land disputes and could exile people from the island entirely under the authority of the Sultanate (Maloney 1980). The atoll and island councils formed under President Nasheed supplanted the island chiefs to become the new administrative channel through which development would flow from the capital to the islands.…”

Section: Chinese Construction and Maldivian Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives

Heslop

Jeffery

2021

Highways and Hierarchies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This chapter examines the longest and most developed road in the Maldives archipelago, a fifteen-kilometre-long link road connecting four islands of the Laamu (or Haddummati) Atoll. In the planning phase, there were tensions between those who argued that the road should connect houses to the school and the mosque and those who argued that the road should connect the harbour to the market. Such appeals, bifurcated along gender lines, reflect local mobility concerns and were tied to existing political rifts between the four islands that were intensified by the appearance of a new infrastructural asset. The built road facilitates a multitude of local encounters as people travel further and more regularly, but it is also through the road that islanders encounter the global forces of capital and construction that shape their islands. The Laamu link road was a ‘gift’ from the Chinese government, constructed by the Jiangsu Transportation Engineering Group (JTEG), and amidst local mobility concerns and inter-island politics swirl rumours and hearsay of land grabs and international power struggles between China, India, the US, and Saudi Arabia. This chapter, as well as being an ethnographic exposition of Chinese infrastructure development in a South Asian archipelago, explores the road as a social experience as it crosscuts competing visions of modernity, global connectivity, and anxiety about material change on remote coral atolls in the Indian Ocean.

show abstract

People of the Maldive Islands.

Cited by 3 publications

References 0 publications

Chinese Ceramic Exchange in the Maldives and the Indian Ocean, AD 900-1900

Chinese Ceramic Exchange in the Maldives and the Indian Ocean, AD 900-1900

Religion and authoritarianism in the Maldives: Is another authoritarian reversal in the Maldives imminent?

Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About