Cover of Crossing the Bay of Bengal

Crossing the Bay of Bengal

by Sunil S. Amrith

2013 353 pages

The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal--India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia--are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first t…

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