• ISBN13: 9789384092047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: September 12, 2016
• Pages: 200
• Original Price: INR 1295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 513 grams

Manifestations of History highlights the significant, yet underestimated, place of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in socio-cultural and historical studies of the Indian Ocean region. British penal colonialism, the Japanese occupation during the Second World War as well as the post-Independence migration of Partition refugees, repatriates and migrants from all over South Asia left a deep imprint on local society. These features render the islands an ideal sociological showcase for the study of historical manifestations. Multiple castes, classes, communities, religions, and languages reflect the social complexity of South Asia and reveal entanglements between the British Empire, the Indian nation-state, and destination countries of South Asian overseas migration.

Frank Heidemann is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) of Munich. Philipp Zehmisch is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich.