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

By Satadru Sen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415497825
• ISBN13: 9780415497824
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"