TY - JOUR
AU - Chhabria, Sheetal
AB - set out the broad frame of the project and the histor- and regional hub of British power. Singapore’s decline ical contexts that led British officials in India to turn as a penal colony, however, was mirrored by the rise to penal transportation as a mode of punishing “hei- of the Andamans Islands as the primary destination nous” offenses, such as murder and armed robbery, for Indian convict transportees from 1858 to 1939—a and acts of political rebellion (2). Yang shows how development that Yang mentions but does not explore colonial officials in the Indian Ocean drew on practices in depth. In comparison to earlier penal colonies in originally developed in other penal colonies, including Southeast Asia, the Andamans served a different pur- Australia, but is also attuned to the specificities of the pose: providing an important but isolated way sta- Indian context. Thus officials in British India con- tion for British shipping rather than a beachhead for tinued to deploy penal transportation even as it was regional expansion. Notably, the British did not rede- being phased out in other parts of the British Empire ploy Indian convict labor to build infrastructure for because they believed it was a particularly 
TI - Aditya Sarkar. Trouble at the Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay.
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/rhac060
DA - 2022-04-26
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/aditya-sarkar-trouble-at-the-mill-factory-law-and-the-emergence-of-the-dd1DLhax1y
SP - 490
EP - 492
VL - 127
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -