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Prof. Devika Shankar (The University of Hong Kong) joins Philip Gooding to discuss her new book, An encroaching sea : nature, sovereignty and development at the edge of British India 1860-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2025). 

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Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Photo Credit: “Recently installed tetrapods along the Chellanam Coast,” by Devika Shankar.


The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”