Subaltern Lives : Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920

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Subaltern Lives builds a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean using biographical fragments. Clare Anderson reveals the importance of penal transportation for colonial expansion, shedding new light on convict experiences of penal settlements and colonies, and the relationship between convictism, punishment and colonial labour regimes.