Andaman Islands: Writing Indigenous Women's Lives In The Bay Of Bengal - Cultures Of Empire In The Andaman Islands, 1789–1906

Andaman Islands: Writing Indigenous Women's Lives In The Bay Of Bengal - Cultures Of Empire In The Andaman Islands, 1789–1906   Clare Anderson, 2011   This article centers on the lives of two indigenous women of the Andaman Islands, both of whom were known by the British as “Topsy.” The East India Company established a settlement in the Andamans archipelago in the Bay of Bengal in 1789, but abandoned it within a decade in the face of devastating rates of disease. The British were more...

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