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- ISBN 9781843312956
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This fascinating book, based on extensive archival research in Britain and India, examines why mutineer-rebels chose to attack prisons and release prisoners, discusses the impact of the destruction of the jails on British penal policy in mainland India, considers the relationship between India and its penal settlements in Southeast Asia, re-examines Britain’s decision to settle the Andaman Islands as a penal colony in 1858 and re-evaluates the experiences of mutineer-rebel convicts there. This book makes an important contribution to histories of the mutiny-rebellion, British colonial South Asia, British expansion in the Indian Ocean and incarceration and transportation.
Clare Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester.
