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  title info:
    title: Mini-India
    sub title: the politics of migration and subalternity in the Andaman Islands
  title info:
    title: Mini India
  name:
    name part: Zehmisch, Philipp
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ii
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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 criminalized, 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 labor migrants from Chotanagpur, who are at the center of an ethnographic case study in the second part of the book. Employing the concept of subalternity to investigate political negotiations of island history, collective identity, ecological sustainability, and resource access, the author analyses various shades of inequality arising from communities' material and representational access to the state. Far from merely representing them as vulnerable victims of external domination, the author emphasizes subaltern agency in migration, settlement and place-making processes. Representing characteristic views, practices, consciousness and voices of subaltern interlocutors, the book demonstrates particular strategies to achieve autonomy, autarchy and peaceful cohabitation through movement, appropriation, and multi-layered means of resistance.
  note: Philipp Zehmisch.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-327) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    geographic: Andaman Islands (India)
    topic: Ethnic relations
  subject:
    topic: East Indians
    geographic: India
    geographic: Andaman Islands
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Andaman Islands (India)
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  classification: DS486.5.A5 Z45 2017
  classification: 954/.8
  identifier: 9780199469864
  identifier: 0199469865
  identifier: 2017325665
  record info:
    record content source: DKAGE
    record creation date: 170530
    record change date: 20180501142535.0
    record identifier: in00003961457