Mini India the politics of migration and subalternity in the Andaman Islands

This text fills a gap in the under-represented scholarship on the migrant and settler society of the Andaman Islands. The study focuses on how marginalised people from criminalised, low-class, low-caste, landless, refugee, repatriated, and Adivasi backgrounds have come to form a cosmopolitan, overse...

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Main Author: Zehmisch, Philipp
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2017, 2017
Edition:First edition
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This text fills a gap in the under-represented scholarship on the migrant and settler society of the Andaman Islands. The study focuses on how marginalised people from criminalised, low-class, low-caste, landless, refugee, repatriated, and Adivasi backgrounds have come to form a cosmopolitan, overseas conglomerate of communities - a Mini-India that incorporates the cultural, religious, social, ethnic, and class diversity of the subcontinent
Item Description:This edition previously issued in print: 2017
Physical Description:1 online resource illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
ISBN:9780199089116