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"Navigating Culture: Islam and Encounter in the Indian Ocean World" is the result of a collaborative effort between the Claremont Collleges Library and Pomona College. The gallery space exhibit was curated by Pomona students Anisha Bhat '15 and Anna Kramer '16, along with Ayat Agah and Gale Burrow, from Special Collections. Dr. Arash Khazeni from the Pomona College History department was instrumental in this collaboration.

Part of this scholarly collaboration was a guest lecture on the opening night of the exhibit, featuring Dr. Nile Green, Director of the Program on Central Asia at UCLA. A second collaborative element afforded Pomona College students an opporutnity to present their research on topics related to the theme of the exhibit. Dr. Khazeni was the faculty discusant for this panel presentation. The student researchers and their topics are as follows:

Clare Anderson, Pomona ‘15
Time Across the Indian Ocean Floor: A Nineteenth-Century History of the Oldest Ocean’s Lowest Stratum

Anisha Bhat, Pomona College ‘15
Ethnographies of Exchange: Cross-Cultural Encounter and the Formation of Siddi Identity in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World

Anna Kramer, Pomona College ‘16
Artist Unknown: Tracing South Asian Contributions to European Botanical Productions

Aaran Patel, Pomona College ‘15
The Parsis of Colonial Bombay: The Role Played by the Minority Community in the Nineteenth Century City

Niyati Shenoy, Pomona College ‘15
Twenty-One Years of Solitude: The Life and Times of Toru Dutt

The digital exhibit is available thanks to Special Collections Library Student Assistants Rachel Levi (Scripps '15), Adrian Baris (Scripps '17), Hannah Blythe (CGU), and Grace Rodriguez, (CMC '15) who designed the site. The exhibit, opening lecture, and accompanying student lecture, were made possible by the Office of Foundation and Corporate Relations at Pomona College.

Ayat Agah, Ph.D. Candidate in Women's Studies in Religion at Claremont Graduate University, co-curated the digital exhibit and provided content for the online site.

Curating "Navigating Culture"

Anisha Bhat (Pomona College '15) and Anna Kramer (Pomona College '16) review materials for "Navigating Culture" in the Special Collections Reading Room of the Claremont Colleges Library.

Curating "Navigating Culture"

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Mémoires relatifs à l'expédition anglaise : partie du Bengale en 1800 pour aller combattre en Égypte l'armée d'orient. Louis Pantaléon Jude Amédée Noé. Paris: L'Impimerie Royale, 1826.