Needle at the Bottom of the Sea
Stewart, Tony K. / Irani, Ayesha A. “Access Bengal’s secret heart through this wondrous book. Travel deep into the forest and peek beyond the delta’s edge: balancing scholarly rigor with storytelling elan, Tony Stewart’s tidal tales with their fantastic cast of boundary-crossing characters shed unexpected and much-needed light on the relationship between Bengal, Islam, and the Indian Ocean world.”—Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Infosys Prize winner and author, Partition’s Post-Amnesias...