Plunder and Prestige: Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India

The languages of Indian Ocean studies: Models, methods and sources

“…With regard to the Indian Ocean specifically, seeLambourn (2018).4 For this reason, epigraphic studies are of much greater importance to the medieval Indian Ocean than to the Mediterranean. See, for example,Cowan (1940),Damais (1968),Dewaraja (2006), andLambourn (2008).5 On these and other dimensions of modern "library history" in South Asia, see Amstutz (2020),Boyk et al (2020), andEhrlich (2020). On an important East African collection, seeBang (2014).6 As delineated in the bibliographical obituary byMarshall (2000), a similar trajectory was marked by the influential scholarship of Ashin Das Gupta (partly collected inGupta, 1994).7For critical engagements with the concept of the "Silk Road," seeGreen (2015) andRezakhani (2010).8 The exception is the exemplary work on Southeast Asia byVan der Putten (2002) andVersteegh (2001).…”

“…5 5 On these and other dimensions of modern “library history” in South Asia, see Amstutz (2020), Boyk et al. (2020), and Ehrlich (2020). On an important East African collection, see Bang (2014).…”