{"id":9517,"date":"2026-07-31T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgunew\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:45:09","slug":"professor-arup-k-chatterjees-new-book-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/insidejgu\/professor-arup-k-chatterjees-new-book-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Arup K. Chatterjee&#8217;s new book released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book by Professor (Dr) Arup K. Chatterjee, Professor, Jindal Global Law School, titled\u00a0<em>Adam\u2019s Bridge: Sacrality, Performance, and Heritage of an Oceanic Marvel<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge UK 2024) has been published. This is Prof. Chatterjee\u2019s third book.<\/p>\n<p><em>Adam\u2019s Bridge<\/em>\u00a0offers 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. It elucidates the entanglement of Adam\u2019s Bridge\u2019s discursive history with India\u2019s colonial history, contemporary geology, domestic politics, and the nation\u2019s emerging position in a complex geopolitical order in and around the Indian Ocean region vis-\u00e0-vis increasing Sino-American involvement in Indo-Sri Lankan relations.<\/p>\n<p>Without foregrounding any absolute scientific claims on the location of the sandbars that inspired sage Valmiki\u2019s 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 Mannar and Palk Bay. Beyond secular-versus-religious debates,\u00a0<em>Adam\u2019s Bridge<\/em>\u00a0will be of interest to scholars of ocean and island studies, coastal economies, archipelagic geographies, environmental history, heritage studies, colonial studies, and cultural theory.<\/p>\n<p><em>Adam\u2019s Bridge<\/em>\u00a0unifies a consortium of themes, ranging across ecological and livelihood sustainability, environmentalism, soteriology, economic and geostrategic history, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, in conceptualising a compellingly nuanced chronicle for India\u2019s enchanted \u2018bridge\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The book is now available across Indian bookstores and online on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Adams-Bridge-Sacrality-Performance-Heritage\/dp\/1032335475\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\">Amazon in India<\/a>\u00a0and currently on Kindle in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Adams-Bridge-Sacrality-Performance-Heritage\/dp\/1032335475\">United Kingdom, United States and worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Chatterjee has previously authored the widely acclaimed books,\u00a0<em>The Purveyors of Destiny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways<\/em>, later republished as the now bestselling\u00a0<em>The Great Indian Railways<\/em>\u00a0(Bloomsbury 2017; 2019), and\u00a0<em>Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India<\/em>\u00a0(Bloomsbury 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book by Professor (Dr) Arup K. 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