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Book The Indian Islanders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rikshesh Malhotra
  • Publisher : Mittal Publications
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9788170991489
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Indian Islanders written by Rikshesh Malhotra and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean

Download or read book Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean written by Satadru Sen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Land of Naked People

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  • Author : Madhusree Mukerjee
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780618197361
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Land of Naked People written by Madhusree Mukerjee and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Book The Andaman Islanders

Download or read book The Andaman Islanders written by Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology by Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, first published in 1922, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Book The Sentinelese  The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island

Download or read book The Sentinelese The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island written by Charles River Editors and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading There is no record of Marco Polo ever visiting the Andaman Islands, so his brief description of the islanders must have been drawn from a secondary source. They were, he wrote, "a most brutish and savage race, having heads, eyes, and teeth like those of dogs. They are very cruel, and kill and eat every foreigner whom they can lay their hands upon." Most subsequent travelers and travelogues have tended to agree, although in an age of inclusion and diversity, the modern understanding and appreciation of the indigenous Andamanese is somewhat more sympathetic. Nonetheless, that one common theme has persisted, in particular in the many colonial-era chronicles, which were all written at a time when Darwin and his contemporaries were rationalizing evolution, and evolutionary divergence. How could it be, they ask, that a small pocket of the human race could be content to linger so far behind in the journey of human development? The Andaman and Nicobar Islands comprise a tiny archipelago of some 200 islands in the Indian Ocean. They are located in a seemingly insignificant spot in the Bay of Bengal, comprising a combined area of only 3,500 square miles, but the islands are a tropical idyll, populated by dark Indians drawn mainly from the east coast, with a curious aboriginal people who appear more African than Asian. The islands have been within sight of international shipping routes since the very birth of ocean travel, and yet, until the arrival of the great European trading enterprises, the archipelago remained virtually unvisited, and absolutely unsettled by any other than its indigenous inhabitants. The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island profiles the indigenous people, famous attempts to contact them, and what's known and unknown about them. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Sentinelese like never before.

Book Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK

Download or read book Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK written by Laura Jeffery and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chagos islanders were forcibly uprooted from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean between 1965 and 1973. This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It thus provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of one community. Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Mauritius and Crawley (West Sussex), the six chapters explore Chagossians’ challenging lives in Mauritius, the mobilisation of the community, reformulations of the homeland, the politics of culture in exile, onward migration to Crawley, and attempts to make a home in successive locations. Jeffery illuminates how displaced people romanticise their homeland through an exploration of changing representations of the Chagos Archipelago in song lyrics. Offering further ethnographic insights into the politics of culture, she shows how Chagossians in exile engage with contrasting conceptions of culture ranging from expectations of continuity and authenticity to enactments of change, loss and revival. The book will appeal particularly to social scientists specialising in the fields of migration studies, the anthropology of displacement, political and legal anthropology, African studies, Indian Ocean studies, and the anthropology of Britain, as well as to readers interested in the Chagossian case study.

Book A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands   Adjacent Countries

Download or read book A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands Adjacent Countries written by John Crawfurd and published by London : Bradbury & Evans. This book was released on 1856 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Island of Shame

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  • Author : David Vine
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2011-01-23
  • ISBN : 0691149836
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Island of Shame written by David Vine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Vine recounts how the British & US governments created the Diego Garcia base, making the native Chagossians homeless in the process. He details the strategic significance of this remote location & also describes recent efforts by the exiles to regain their territory.

Book Geomorphology and Physical Oceanography of the Lakshadweep Coral Islands in the Indian Ocean

Download or read book Geomorphology and Physical Oceanography of the Lakshadweep Coral Islands in the Indian Ocean written by T.N. Prakash and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lakshadweep islands are a group of 36 coral islands in the Indian Ocean. These small islands are unique for their aquatic bio-diversity and vast blue lagoons. This book presents the results of studies done by the authors during the period 1990 to 2009 that address the beach morphology, hydrodynamics, energy resources and management options with special reference to the issue of both natural and anthropogenic coastal erosion. The relatively low island elevation makes the islands more susceptible to high-wave attack and coastal flooding during adverse weather conditions. The islands are also prone to risks from episodic events like cyclones and deep depressions. This highlights the need for a comprehensive study of the wave, climate and coastal processes at work during different seasons to delineate the factors responsible for shoreline changes and also to identify the locations that need protection and the management options. This book will serve as a guide to researchers, scholars and students who are interested in the coastal processes of coral islands.

Book History of the Indian Archipelago

Download or read book History of the Indian Archipelago written by John Crawfurd and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Indian Archipelago  Containing an Account of the Manners  Arts  Languages  Religions  Institutions  and Commerce of Its Inhabitants by John Crawfurd      With Maps and Engravings  In Three Volumes

Download or read book History of the Indian Archipelago Containing an Account of the Manners Arts Languages Religions Institutions and Commerce of Its Inhabitants by John Crawfurd With Maps and Engravings In Three Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Islanders and Empire

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  • Author : Juan José Ponce Vázquez
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-29
  • ISBN : 1108801366
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Islanders and Empire written by Juan José Ponce Vázquez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes how residents of Hispaniola actively negotiated and transformed the meaning and reach of imperial bureaucracies and institutions for their own benefit. By co-opting the governing and judicial powers of local and imperial institutions on the island, residents could take advantage of, and even dominate, the contraband trade that reached the island's shores. In doing so, they altered the course of the European inter-imperial struggles in the Caribbean by limiting, redirecting, or suppressing the Spanish crown's policies, thus taking control of their destinies and that of their neighbors in Hispaniola, other Spanish Caribbean territories, and the Spanish empire in the region.

Book Islanded

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  • Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-08-05
  • ISBN : 022603836X
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Islanded written by Sujit Sivasundaram and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.

Book The Sentinelese

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  • Author : T. N. Pandit
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book The Sentinelese written by T. N. Pandit and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language

Download or read book A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language written by Anvita Abbi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is a pioneering piece of work by Anvita Abbi which introduces readers to a unique world of cognition of the people who are remnants of the first migration from Africa 70,000 years before present.

Book The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands

Download or read book The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands written by Joseph Francis Rock and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: