This book examines savagery and the savage as dynamic components of colonialism in South Asia. Focusing on the colonial discourses of race, criminality, civilization, and savagery, it illuminates and historicizes the processes by which the discourse of savagery was expressed in the Andamans, British India, Britain and the wider empire.
This book examines savagery and the savage as dynamic components of colonialism in South Asia. Focusing on the colonial discourses of race, criminality, civilization, and savagery, it illuminates and historicizes the processes by which the discourse of savagery was expressed in the Andamans, British India, Britain and the wider empire.
Satadru Sen teaches South Asian History at Queens College at City University of New York, USA. He is the author of Colonial Childhoods: The Juvenile Periphery of India, 1860-1945; Migrant Races: Empire, Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji; Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands and (as co-editor) Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Racializing the Andamanese 2. Counterinsurgency and the Jungle 3. Clearings of the Kidnapped 4. The Dying Savage: Work, Medicine and Andamanese Extinction 5. Another Jungle: Natives and Savages 6. Savage Pleasures: The Erotics of the Andamanese Body .Conclusion: Beyond the Clearing
1. Racializing the Andamanese 2. Counterinsurgency and the Jungle 3. Clearings of the Kidnapped 4. The Dying Savage: Work, Medicine and Andamanese Extinction 5. Another Jungle: Natives and Savages 6. Savage Pleasures: The Erotics of the Andamanese Body .Conclusion: Beyond the Clearing
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