Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Power,...

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

Satadru Sen
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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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Anno:
2010
Casa editrice:
Routledge
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
279
ISBN 10:
0415497825
ISBN 13:
9780415497824
Collana:
Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
File:
PDF, 1.67 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2010
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