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Mini-India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands
Philipp Zehmisch
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Description for Mini-India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands
Hardback. Num Pages: 343 pages, 14-11 photos and 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTQ; JFFN; JHBD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
This contribution to Political Anthropology, Migration Research, and Postcolonial Studies fills a gap in the hitherto under-represented scholarship on the settler society of the Andaman Islands, called Mini-India. The main actors of the book are migrants from criminalised, low-class, low-caste, landless, refugee, repatriated, and Adivasi backgrounds. While some achieved social mobility through their movement to this 'new world' for South Asians, others continued to remain disenfranchised and marginal. This holds especially true for the Ranchis, Adivasi labour migrants from Chotanagpur, who are at the centre of an ethnographic case study in the second part of the book. ... Read more
This contribution to Political Anthropology, Migration Research, and Postcolonial Studies fills a gap in the hitherto under-represented scholarship on the settler society of the Andaman Islands, called Mini-India. The main actors of the book are migrants from criminalised, low-class, low-caste, landless, refugee, repatriated, and Adivasi backgrounds. While some achieved social mobility through their movement to this 'new world' for South Asians, others continued to remain disenfranchised and marginal. This holds especially true for the Ranchis, Adivasi labour migrants from Chotanagpur, who are at the centre of an ethnographic case study in the second part of the book. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
OUP India
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
343
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780199469864
SKU
V9780199469864
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10
About Philipp Zehmisch
Philipp Zehmisch is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.
Reviews for Mini-India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands
The book thus presents compelling ideas of subaltern marginalisation and agency and their links to migration, relations of production, and politics. Subaltern resilience is a theme introduced in this journey to the islands. The entangled histories and practices of the settlers in the Andamans is fascinating for uncovering subaltern agency, resistance and complicity.
M. Satish Kumar, Queen's University Belfast, ... Read more
M. Satish Kumar, Queen's University Belfast, ... Read more