Adams Bridge: Sacrality, Performance, and Heritage of an Oceanic Marvel [Hardcover]

Chapter 1: Prologue

Chapter 2: Remnants of a Bridge: Introduction

Chapter 3: Colonizing Indias Longest Bridge

Chapter 4: Navigating a Postcolonial Imbroglio

Chapter 5: Adams Bridge and Environmentalism

Chapter 6: The Abjection of Tamil Fishermen

Chapter 7: Coalitions Against the Sethu Canal

Chapter 8: Ramifications of the Lankan Opposition

Chapter 9: Epilogue

Bibliography

Adams Bridge offers the first comprehensive transdisciplinary study of the famous eponymous tombolo (also known as Ram Setu) combining its sacral, historical, geological, political, performative, and heritage aspects into one framework, viewed under the critical lenses of island studies and cultural theory.

The book elucidates the entanglement of Adams Bridges discursive history with Indias colonial history, contemporary geology, domestic politics, and the nations emerging position in a complex geopolitical order in and around the Indian Ocean region, vis-?-vis increasing Sino-American involvement in Indo-Sri Lankan relations. Without foregrounding any absolute scientific claims on the location of the sandbars that inspired sage Valmikis Ram Setu and the Ramayan legacy or hindering narratives of religious faiths and folklore revolving around the structure, this intellectual historiography traces the parallel evolution of traditions of compassionate questioning and devotion for Indic sacred beliefs among commentators across the millennia from both Indian and non-Indian spectra, seen in juxtaposition with the biotic and abiotic diversity of the Gulf of Mal3g