| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Satadru Sen. Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. vi, 283. $35.00.

Satadru Sen's book examines the organization and objectives of the penal settlement centered in Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, which was created by the newly formalized British regime to incarcerate rebels who had participated in the 1857–1858 mutiny against British power. The history of the settlement during the second half of the nineteenth century serves as an exemplary—rather than representative—illustration of the implementation of the ideology of British rule in India during this period. The study ends in 1898, when a decisive change occurred in the penological regime in the Andamans. This was denoted by the completion of the colony's Cellular Jail, a prison within a prison, which was designed to facilitate extraordinarily rigorous surveillance—and which assumed considerable significance as a symbol of nationalist resistance to British rule in the twentieth century, when many political prisoners transported from the mainland to the Andamans were incarcerated there. . . .

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