Satadru Sen is Associate Professor ofSouth Asian history at the City University of New York. His books include Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders; Colonial Childhoods: The Juvenile Periphery of India 1850-1945; Migrant Races: Empire, Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji; and Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands.