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005			20190102122950.0
007			Hard bound
008			170530s2017 ii ab b 001 0 eng d
010			_a 2017325665
020			_a9780199469864
025			_aI-E-2017325665 ; 69-32 ; 68-32
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn988537157
035			_a(OCoLC)988537157 _z(OCoLC)959592349
037			_bLibrary of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
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082	0	4	_a954.88 _223 _bZE-M
100	1		_aZehmisch, Philipp _955972
245	1	0	_aMini-India _bthe politics of migration and subalternity in the Andaman Islands
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2017
300			_axxii, 358 p. _billustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) _c23 cm
520	8		_aThis 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 criminalised, 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 labour migrants from Chotanagpur, who are at the centre 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. 0Representing 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.
650		0	_aEast Indians _zIndia _zAndaman Islands _xSocial conditions. _955973
651		0	_aAndaman Islands (India) _xEthnic relations. _955974
651		0	_aAndaman Islands (India) _xEmigration and immigration. _955975
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