New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2013. The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal - India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia - are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay and those who have inhabited it.