Critical Inhabitation: An Intimate History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 April 2025
The epilogue provides a summary of the main arguments of the book. Old merchant homes of Gujarat that are located on the ocean’s edge are physical locations and conceptual sites for understanding capitalism across the Indian Ocean during the era of British colonialism and into the present day. The epilogue also revisits the concept of critical inhabitation, a historical method developed in the book to identify and interpret spaces (like merchant homes) that connect disparate archives. The epilogue ends with a story about a merchant home in Variav, a coastal town near the larger port of Surat, to emphasize the ongoing nature of histories charted in the book.
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