For the longest time, the Andaman Islands had been on the fringes of the empire. When the British did arrive, they couldn’t be expected to work with the natives—they didn’t speak English (yet), and anthropology departments in England didn’t teach courses on obscure littoral languages (yet). But like a kleptomaniac left unsupervised in a jewelry shop, the urge to take things over was too strong to resist.
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