This article analyzes some of the key social and political dynamics of the British-Indian penal colony in the Andaman Islands, from the perspective of the individual convict. It focuses on a rare Indian convict autobiography from the nineteenth century: the Urdu memoirs of the Maulana Muhammad Jafar Thanesari, a Wahhabi Muslim activist who was arrested in 1863 for conspiring to smuggle funds to anti-British mujahideen in Afghanistan. Beginning in 1866, Thanesari spent nearly eighteen years in the penal colony, and then returned to the mainland with a new wife, new children, and considerable wealth and social status. The colonial regime’s punishment of Thanesari was quite successful, because it resulted in the conversion of a trouble-maker i...
During the first half of the nineteenth century violent disorder broke out on a number of ships of t...
Singapore’s past as a penal settlement has been largely based upon the usage of Indian convict labou...
This paper examines fragments from the life of Narain Sing as a means of exploring punishment, labou...
This article analyzes some of the key social and political dynamics of the British-Indian penal colo...
This article explores the British Empire’s configuration of imprisonment and transportation in the A...
The 1857 Rebellion has been an unforgettable episode in Indian history and has been a well-documente...
British colonial expansion policy had brought the Andaman and Nicobar Islands under its control. As...
The paper attempts to understand the challenges and opportunities which the penal settlement at Port...
This article explores the postcolonial criminalization of a so-called criminal tribe in the borderla...
This article examines the first Andaman Islands photographs, which were taken by the photographer Os...
This article seeks to shift the frame of analysis within which discussions of Indian indentured migr...
Copyright © 2017 Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History. This article explores the...
This article explores the transportation of Indian convicts to the port cities of the Bay of Bengal ...
Little is known about capital punishment in Fiji in the context of indenture. This paper examines ca...
[First paragraph] Between 1789 and 1939 the British transported at least 108,000 Indian, Burmese, Ma...
During the first half of the nineteenth century violent disorder broke out on a number of ships of t...
Singapore’s past as a penal settlement has been largely based upon the usage of Indian convict labou...
This paper examines fragments from the life of Narain Sing as a means of exploring punishment, labou...
This article analyzes some of the key social and political dynamics of the British-Indian penal colo...
This article explores the British Empire’s configuration of imprisonment and transportation in the A...
The 1857 Rebellion has been an unforgettable episode in Indian history and has been a well-documente...
British colonial expansion policy had brought the Andaman and Nicobar Islands under its control. As...
The paper attempts to understand the challenges and opportunities which the penal settlement at Port...
This article explores the postcolonial criminalization of a so-called criminal tribe in the borderla...
This article examines the first Andaman Islands photographs, which were taken by the photographer Os...
This article seeks to shift the frame of analysis within which discussions of Indian indentured migr...
Copyright © 2017 Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History. This article explores the...
This article explores the transportation of Indian convicts to the port cities of the Bay of Bengal ...
Little is known about capital punishment in Fiji in the context of indenture. This paper examines ca...
[First paragraph] Between 1789 and 1939 the British transported at least 108,000 Indian, Burmese, Ma...
During the first half of the nineteenth century violent disorder broke out on a number of ships of t...
Singapore’s past as a penal settlement has been largely based upon the usage of Indian convict labou...
This paper examines fragments from the life of Narain Sing as a means of exploring punishment, labou...