This article explores the British Empire’s configuration of imprisonment and transportation in the Andaman Islands penal colony. It shows that British governance in the Islands produced new modes of carcerality and coerced migration in which the relocation of convicts, prisoners, and criminal tribes underpinned imperial attempts at political dominance and economic development. The article focuses on the penal transportation of Eurasian convicts, the employment of free Eurasians and Anglo-Indians as convict overseers and administrators, the migration of “volunteer” Indian prisoners from the mainland, the free settlement of Anglo-Indians, and the forced resettlement of the Bhantu “criminal tribe”. It examines the issue from the periphery of British India, thus showing that class, race, and criminality combined to produce penal and social outcomes that were different from those of the imperial mainland. These were related to ideologies of imperial governmentality, including social discipline and penal practice, and the exigencies of political economy.

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安达曼群岛流放地：种族、阶级、犯罪和大英帝国

本文探讨了大英帝国在安达曼群岛流放地的监禁和运输配置。它表明，英国在群岛的治理产生了新的监禁和强迫移民模式，在这种模式中，罪犯、囚犯和犯罪部落的重新安置支持了帝国在政治统治和经济发展方面的企图。文章重点关注欧亚囚犯的刑事运输、雇佣自由的欧亚人和英裔印度人作为囚犯监督和管理人员、印度“志愿”囚犯从大陆迁移、英裔印度人的自由定居以及强制重新安置班图“犯罪部落”。它从英属印度的外围考察这个问题，从而表明阶级、种族、和犯罪相结合，产生了与帝国大陆不同的刑事和社会结果。这些都与帝国治理的意识形态有关，包括社会纪律和刑罚实践，以及政治经济学的紧迫性。