New histories of the Andaman Islands : landscape, place and identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790-2012/

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An innovative, multidisciplinary study of the historical development of the Andaman Islands, from 1790 to the year 2012. Combining approaches and methodologies from history and anthropology, the authors explore the theme of landscape, analyzing the transformation of space into place, and the making...

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Main Author: Anderson, Clare
Other Authors: Mazumdar, Madhumita, Pandya, Vishvajit
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom : Cambridge University , 2016
Subjects:
Andaman Islands (India) -- History. > Andaman Islands (India) -- Historiography. > Ethnicity -- India -- Andaman Islands.
Table of Contents:
  • Improving visions, troubled landscapes: the legacies of colonial Ferrargunj / Madhumita Mazumdar
  • Entangled struggles, contested histories: the Second World War and after / Clare Anderson
  • The making of 'rhizomatic' landscape: place, space and the politics of memory in the Andamanese Islands / Vishvajit Pandya
  • The Andaman local born: history, identity and convict descent / Clare Anderson
  • Dwelling in fluid spaces: the Matuas of the Andaman Islands / Madhumita Mazumdar
  • In pursuit of fireflies: the poetics and politics of 'lightscapes' in the Jarawa forests / Vishvajit Pandya
  • Visual representations of the penal colony / Clare Anderson
  • Endangered landscapes, dream destinations: the shifting frames of 'tropicality' in the Andaman Islands / Madhumita Mazumdar.

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