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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zehmisch, Philipp (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Andaman Islands (India) > Ethnic relations.
Andaman Islands (India) > Emigration and immigration.
East Indians > India > Andaman Islands > Social conditions.
East Indians > Social conditions
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
India > Andaman Islands
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I Theory, Methodology, and the Field
  • 1. Concept of Subalternity: Theoretical and Methodological Implications
  • 2. Doing Fieldwork in the Andamans: Transformations with and within the Field
  • pt. II Islands of Subalternity: Migration, Place-Making, and Politics
  • 3. Subaltern Migrations and the State
  • 4. Mini-India: Nationalism, Politics, and Subaltern Consciousness
  • 5. Manifestations of History
  • Interlude: Fieldwork, the Subaltern, and the Everyday State
  • pt. III Landscapes of Subalternity: An Ethnography of the Ranchis of Mini-India
  • 6. Uncovering the Silent Other: Colonization, Aboriginal Labour, and the Production of Ranchi-ness
  • 7. Ranchis of Mini-India: Subaltern Lifeworlds in the Margins of the State
  • 8. Politics of Voice and Silence: Dialectics of Domination and Autonomy.