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"This is a brilliant book. It sensitively tells the stories of seafarers on dhows traversing the Indian Ocean. We hear about their struggles with caste and class prejudice, racism and Islamophobia. The seafarers aboard dhows who navigate multiple sovereignties at sea and complex border regimes on land are rendered lovingly here, in three dimensions and with all the requisite appreciation of complexity and respect for their trajectories."--Laleh Khalili, author of The Corporeal Life of Seafaring

"A stunning multisited ethnography of the ships and smugglers that underpin the global economy. Nidhi Mahajan's incisive scholarship shows us how borders, shrines, and meals are the moorings that enable mobilities across the Indian Ocean."--Johan Mathew, author of Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea

"Draws from rich, intimate, and challenging fieldwork and emphasizes how seafarers from Western India contest and challenge their marginality by turning to the sea--in ways that follow in the footsteps of generations before them--seeking out possibilities amidst perilous circumstances."--Jatin Dua, author of Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean

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