Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"The study essentially is novel in its nature as it looks specifically at the indigenous population of the Andaman. Up till now scholarship has largely focused on the convicts and their settlements in the penal colonies. The work juxtaposes the three actors--the colonisers, the convicts and the aborigines--and reflects very well the tensions between these three." - Shilpi Rajpal, University of Delhi; South Asia Research, 2013.