New histories of the Andaman Islands : landscape, place and identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790-2012 / Clare Anderson, University of Leicester, Madhumita Mazumdar, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology and Vishvajit Pandya, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Clare, 1969- author.

Mazumdar, Madhumita, author.

Pandya, Vishvajit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--India--Andaman Islands.

Ethnicity.

Andaman Islands (India)--History.

Andaman Islands (India).

Andaman Islands (India)--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This innovative, multidisciplinary exploration of the unique history of the Andaman Islands as a hunter-gatherer society, colonial penal colony, and state-engineered space of settlement and development ranges across the theoretical, conceptual and thematic concerns of history, anthropology and historical geography. Covering the entire period of post-settlement Andamans history, from the first (failed) British occupation of the Islands in the 1790s up to the year 2012, the authors examine imperial histories of expansion and colonization, decolonization, anti-colonialism and nationalism, Japanese occupation, independence and partition, migration, commemoration and contemporary issues of Indigenous welfare. New Histories of the Andaman Islands offers a new way of thinking about the history of South Asia, and will be thought-provoking reading for scholars of settler colonial societies in other contexts, as well as those engaged in studies of nationalism and postcolonial state formation, ecology, visual cultures and the politics of representation.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title ; Frontispiece; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Glossary; 1 Introduction; Entangled histories ; Collaboration, integration, relationships; Landscape, space and place

Contentious, affective and imagined landscapes Part I Contentious landscapes; 2 Improving visions, troubled landscapes: the legacies of colonial Ferrargunj; Introduction; The penal colony in transition; The improving vision; The search for colonists

The birth of Ferrargunj Colony The changing fate of Ferrargunj ; Conclusion ; 3 Entangled struggles, contested histories: the Second World War and after ; Introduction ; From occupation to Independence ; The abolition of the penal colony: repatriation, Andaman Indians and Andamanians

Wartime compensation, relief and pensions: Histories of commemoration and memorialization; Conclusion; 4 The making of a 'rhizomatic' landscape: place, space and the politics of memory in the Andamanese Islands; Introduction: embodied and rhizomatic landscapes

Front yards and back yards:The ironies of Aberdeen; Contentious memories: the Japanese occupation; Mazar at Sona Pahad; Conclusion; Part II Affective landscapes; 5 The Andaman local born: history, identity and convict descent; Introduction; Land and labour

Culture, religion, society and sexuality

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-42363-8

1-316-42640-8

1-316-42679-3

1-316-42757-9

1-316-42835-4

1-316-42718-8

1-316-42913-X

1-139-92464-8