Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean : Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders

ISBN-13: 9780415626705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012

Satadru Sen

Opis

This text examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Recenzje

"The study essentially is novel in its nature as it looks specifically at the indigenous population of the Andaman. Up till now scholarship has largely focused on the convicts and their settlements in the penal colonies. The work juxtaposes the three actors—the colonisers, the convicts and the aborigines—and reflects very well the tensions between these three." - Shilpi Rajpal, University of Delhi; South Asia Research, 2013.

Spis treści

1. Racializing the Andamanese  2. Counterinsurgency and the Jungle  3. Clearings of the Kidnapped  4. The Dying Savage: Work, Medicine and Andamanese Extinction  5. Another Jungle: Natives and Savages  6. Savage Pleasures: The Erotics of the Andamanese Body  .Conclusion: Beyond the Clearing

O autorze

Satadru Sen teaches South Asian History at Queens College at City University of New York, USA.  He is the author of  Colonial Childhoods: The Juvenile Periphery of India, 1860-1945; Migrant Races: Empire, Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji;
Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands and (as co-editor) Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia.