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Imperial Andamans

Colonial Encounter and Island History

Aparna Vaidik

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

General Editors: Megan Vaughan, Kings’ College, Cambridge and Richard

Drayton, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

This informative series covers the broad span of modern imperial history

while also exploring the recent developments in former colonial states

where residues of empire can still be found. The books provide in-depth

examinations of empires as competing and complementary power

structures encouraging the reader to reconsider their understanding of

international and world history during recent centuries.

Titles include:

Sunil S. Amrith

DECOLONIZING INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

India and Southeast Asia, 1930–65

Tony Ballantyne

ORIENTALISM AND RACE

Aryanism in the British Empire

Robert J. Blyth

THE EMPIRE OF THE RAJ

Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858–1947

Roy Bridges ( editor )

IMPERIALISM, DECOLONIZATION AND AFRICA

Studies Presented to John Hargreaves

L.J. Butler

COPPER EMPIRE

Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c.1930–64

Hilary M. Carey ( editor )

EMPIRES OF RELIGION

T. J. Cribb ( editor )

IMAGINED COMMONWEALTH

Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English

Michael S. Dodson

ORIENTALISM, EMPIRE AND NATIONAL CULTURE

India, 1770–1880

Ulrike Hillemann

ASIAN EMPIRE AND BRITISH KNOWLEDGE

China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion

B.D. Hopkins

THE MAKING OF MODERN AFGHANISTAN

Ronald Hyam

BRITAIN’S IMPERIAL CENTURY, 1815–1914: A STUDY OF EMPIRE AND

EXPANSION

Third Edition

Robin Jeffrey

POLITICS, WOMEN AND WELL-BEING

How Kerala became a ‘Model’

Gerold Krozewski

MONEY AND THE END OF EMPIRE

British International Economic Policy and the Colonies, 1947–58

Sloan Mahone and Megan Vaughan ( editors )

PSYCHIATRY AND EMPIRE

Javed Majeed

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL AND POST-NATIONAL IDENTITY

Francine McKenzie

REDEFINING THE BONDS OF COMMONWEALTH 1939–1948

The Politics of Preference

Gabriel Paquette

ENLIGHTENMENT, GOVERNANCE AND REFORM IN SPAIN AND ITS EMPIRE

1759–1808

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre

IRISH AND INDIAN

The Cosmopolitan Politics of Alfred Webb

Ricardo Roque

HEADHUNTING AND COLONIALISM

Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire,

1870–1930

Michael Silvestri

IRELAND AND INDIA

Nationalism, Empire and Memory

John Singleton and Paul Robertson

ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AUSTRALASIA 1945–1970

Aparna Vaidik

IMPERIAL ANDAMANS

Colonial Encounter and Island History

Kim A. Wagner ( editor )

THUGGEE

Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India

Jon E. Wilson

THE DOMINATION OF STRANGERS

Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780–1835

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Colonial Encounter and Island History

Aparna Vaidik

Professor of History, Georgetown University, USA

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Vaidik, Aparna, 1975–

Imperial Andamans : colonial encounter and island history / Aparna

Vaidik.

p. cm. – (Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-230-57605-6 (hardback)

1. Andaman Islands (India)–History. 2. Andaman Islands

(India)–Colonization. 3. Andaman Islands (India)–Geography. 4.

Andaman Islands (India)–Environmental conditions. 5. Penal

colonies–India–Andaman Islands–History. 6. British–India–Andaman

Islands–History. 7. Great Britain–Colonies–Asia. I. Title.

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