Cover

Half-title

Frontispiece

Title page

Copyright information

Table of contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Glossary

1 Introduction

Entangled histories

Collaboration, integration, relationships

Landscape, space and place

Contentious, affective and imagined landscapes

Part I Contentious landscapes

2 Improving visions, troubled landscapes: the legacies of colonial Ferrargunj

Introduction

The penal colony in transition

The improving vision

The search for colonists

The birth of Ferrargunj Colony

The changing fate of Ferrargunj

Conclusion

3 Entangled struggles, contested histories: the Second World War and after

Introduction

From occupation to Independence

The abolition of the penal colony: repatriation, Andaman Indians and Andamanians

Wartime compensation, relief and pensions

Histories of commemoration and memorialization

Conclusion

4 The making of a ‘rhizomatic’ landscape: place, space and the politics of memory in the Andamanese Islands

Introduction: embodied and rhizomatic landscapes

Front yards and back yards

The ironies of Aberdeen

Contentious memories: the Japanese occupation

Mazar at Sona Pahad

Conclusion

Part II Affective landscapes

5 The Andaman local born: history, identity and convict descent

Introduction

Land and labour

Culture, religion, society and sexuality

Colonial self-sufficiency and community morale

In the post-colony: ‘unity in diversity’

Conclusion: the afterlife of empire and the essence of India

6 Dwelling in fluid spaces: the Matuas of the Andaman Islands

Introduction

The Bengali ‘settler’ on the Islands

Meeting the Matuas

The Matua moral order

The Matua sense of home

Conclusion

7 In pursuit of fireflies: the poetics and politics of ‘lightscapes’ in the Jarawa forests

Prelude

Introduction

The order of light in the forest

Moving through the lightscape

Dwelling in the lightscape

Conclusion

Part III Imagined landscapes

8 Visual representations of the penal colony

Introduction

A(n) (dis)orderly colony

Andaman photograph-objects

Conclusions

9 Endangered landscapes, dream destinations: the shifting frames of ‘tropicality’ in the Andaman Islands

Introduction

The environmental anxieties of colonization

The endangered Isles

Conservation photography and the shifting frames of tropicality

From the endangered to the picturesque

Conclusion

10 Conclusion

Bibliography

Newspapers and periodicals

Alkazi collection of photography, New Delhi

Andaman and Nicobar administration archives, secretariat complex, Port Blair (A&N archives)

Bristol record office, British Empire and Commonwealth museum collection

British library: India office library (IOR)

British museum, anthropology library

Cellular jail museum library, Port Blair (CJML)

Horniman museum, Forest Hill, London

Imperial war museum

Personal collection, Mukeshwar Lall (PCML)

Personal collection, Keith Wilson (PCKW)

University of Cambridge

School of oriental and African studies, archives and special collections

The National Archives, Kew

National Archives of India, New Delhi

National Library of Australia, Canberra

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Miscellaneous Online Records

Royal Geographical Society, London (RGS)

VandA Museum Archives

Queen's Collection, Windsor Castle

Published material, pre-1945

Published material, post-1945

Index