Often called ‘Mini-India’, the Andaman Islands have been a crucial site of encounter between different regimes, subjects, castes, creeds, languages, and ethnicities. Since 1858, subaltern convicts, refugees, repatriates, and labourers from South and Southeast Asia have moved to the islands, condemned to, or in search of a new life. While some migrants have achieved social mobility, others have remained disenfranchised and marginalized. This ethnographic study of the Andaman settler society analyses various shades of inequality that arise from migrant communities’ material and representational access to the state. The author employs the concept of subalternity to investigate political negotiations of island history, collective identity, ecological sustainability, and resource access. Interpreting characteristic views, practices, and voices of subaltern interlocutors, the author untangles their collective agency and consciousness in migration, settlement, and place-making processes. Further, the book highlights particular subaltern strategies in order to achieve autonomy and peaceful cohabitation through movement, cultural and social appropriation, and multi-layered methods of resistance.

My Encounter with Mini-India in Mumbai Customs is a memoir of the Author’s Service career with Mumbai Customs, which spanned more than 28 years. This book may provide an account and nature of preventive service in Mumbai Customs of the period of 1986 to 2014 for those who are interested in it. This book would stir the service- memories of Author’s colleagues, of his batch mates, of his seniors and of all other confederates of Mumbai Customs, who go through this book. It highlights the appointment, training in the preventive cadre, various places postings given under the jurisdiction of Mumbai Customs, the idiosyncrasies of its officers, its bygone days etc. and how these characteristics make Mumbai Customs’ paradigm shift into Mini India, all beautifully converted in words. The detail of Posting History given is for the main purpose to familiarize the readers of various places, nature & conditions wherein a preventive officer had to perform his duties, and of course through this way the author could revisit his journey in Mumbai Customs. Author’s effort may also enable, his the then colleagues and the persons connected with Mumbai Customs to re-live their experiences in Mumbai Customs. This book lucidly covers diversified and cultural facets of Indianness like Religion, Language, Dressing, government Service work- milieu etc. through the diligent reminiscences of author’s service career with Mumbai Customs.

This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. Examining cultural encounters between Europeans and Indians during the precolonial and colonial periods, the book analyzes European, especially English, efforts to exoticize or investigate the social practices of the Other. It also presents the culturally conditioned Indian subject's perspective on Europe and the imperial society. The book engages with narratives of suppressed movements of tribals and dalits, of erosion of the culture and history of ancient communities, and recovers the local narratives of marginalized groups in Andaman and Malabar, which get superseded by the larger narrative of nation-building. Often relying on oral history instead of printed material and sociological fieldwork, the alternate histories are presented through unconventional, literary or semi-literary genres like travel narratives, fiction, films, and songs, thus presenting an alternative interpretation to the central narrative of the progress of mainstream India. Representing cultural history and the view from below, the book shifts its focus from the conventional historiography associated with political history and will be of interest to academics working in the field of cultural studies, the historiography of India, South Asian Studies and an interdisciplinary audience in history, sociology, literature, media, and English studies.

Born on 4th August, 1976, Abhishek Kumar Dubey comes from a small town, Jasidih in Jharkhand. Right from his childhood, he wanted to lead a different life and in this pursuit he came to Delhi. Abhishek was a north zone topper in 10+2(CBSE) and a Hansraj College topper in both BA and MA(History). Freelancing since his college days, he started his journalistic career with NDTV. In NDTV, he came up with one of the most successful sports shows like Olympics 2004 and Chunautee 2004-2006. After working with NDTV for 6 years, he joined IBN 7. A regular contributor on sports issues in different magazines and newspapers. Abhishek is also a guest faculty for several mass media institutes. This book contains the inside story of the Indian dressing room along with some unknown cricketing incidents on and off the field. - What Guru Greg said to Sourav Ganguly in the team bus after the Delhi test. - First information of BCCI's charges against Jagmohan Dalmiya. - The rise and fall of two bengal tigers, who were so near but eventually turned out to be so far, in entirely transforming the Indian cricket.

Set in Mumbai during the Hindu-Muslim conflict of the early 1990s, The Fourth Passenger is the story of four women raised with traditional Indian values, whose partnership give them the temerity to stand up against religious extremism. Having reached their thirties and disillusioned with their lives and husbands, their decision to open an urban food stand is mingled with their memories of a distant past when two of them loved the same man. But, in order to establish their fledgling business, they must contend with individual temperament, extortionists, ruthless competitors, and most importantly, the prevailing religious intolerance.

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