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Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean - Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders (Paperback)
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Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean - Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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This book 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 eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in
the Andaman Islands - beginning tentatively in 1789 and renewed on
a larger scale in 1858 - represent an extensive, complex experiment
in the management of populations through colonial discourses of
race, criminality, civilization, and savagery. Focussing on the
ubiquitous characterization of the Andaman islanders as 'savages',
this study explores the particular relationship between savagery
and the practice of colonialism. Satadru Sen examines savagery and
the savage as dynamic components of colonialism in South Asia: not
intellectual abstractions with clear and fixed meanings, but
politically 'alive' and fiercely contested products of the colony.
Illuminating and historicizing the processes by which the discourse
of savagery goes through multiple and fundamental shifts between
the late eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries, he shows the
links and breaks between these shifts and changing ideas of race,
adulthood and masculinity in the Andamans, British India, Britain
and in the wider empire. He also highlights the implications of
these changes for the 'savages' themselves. At the broadest level,
this book re-examines the relationship between the modern and the
primitive in a colonial world.
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