The politics of convict space : Indian penal settlements and the Andaman Islands

• Main Author: Anderson, Clare
• Other Authors: Bashford, A., Strange, C.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge (Taylor & Francis) 2014
• Subjects: Indian; Blair; Prince of Wales Island; Penal
• Online Access: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415309806/; http://hdl.handle.net/2381/28687

From the late eighteenth century, as the British made incursions into India, they established a series of penal settlements for the reception of South Asian convicts. Bencoolen was the first destination, from 1773. It was later joined and eventually replaced during the first half of the nineteenth c...