A hundred horizons: the Indian Ocean in the age of global empire

1. Space and time on the Indian ocean rim

2. The gulf between precolonial and colonial empires

3. Flows of capitalists, laborers, and commodities

4. Waging war for king and country

5. Expatriate patriots : anticolonial imagination and action

6. Pilgrims' progress under colonial rule

7. A different univeralism? Oceanic voyages of a poet as pilgrim

Conclusion : The Indian ocean arena in the history of globalization