...” at the British penal colony in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The prosecution of same-sex eroticism among forced migrants at the colony turns out to be intimately entangled with prison labor, discourses of visibility, recontoured landscapes, criminalization of everyday activities, and a politics of surmise...

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... of prisoners within European empires, also builds theoretical bridges. Focusing on the British penal settlement of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Weston explores how a politics of surmise, and the transformation of everyday activities into actionable offenses, shaped the colonial...