Category: On the Field

• January 11, 2023

  Like Ink on Water (reading the records on medieval maritime world)

  During my study visits in Konkan along the west coast of India, I chanced upon something that I had only heard of. It is a genealogical scroll in the possession of Sayyid family in one of the coastal towns of Konkan. The genealogical scroll traces a biological as well as spiritual lineages. A close reading…