Across the Black Water
Rath, Akshaya K.
The British Empire transported thousands of Indian convicts to form a penal colony in the Andaman Islands. With a detailed critical introduction that recounts the genesis of the penal settlement in the nineteenth-century and follows its story till the arrival of the Azad Hind army of Subhas Chandra Bose in the Andamans during the Second World War, Across the Black Water, for the first time, brings to the readers a collection of key documents f...