TY - BOOK ID - 85462880 TI - New histories of the Andaman Islands : landscape, place and identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790-2012 AU - Anderson, Clare AU - Mazumdar, Madhumita AU - Pandya, Vishvajit PY - 2015 SN - 1316426408 1316426793 1316427579 1316428354 1316427188 131642913X 1139924648 110707679X 1107434025 1316423638 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnicity KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Andaman Islands (India) KW - Andamans (India) KW - History. KW - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85462880 AB - 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. ER -