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===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/andamanandnicob00unkngoog#page/n8/mode/1up ''The Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Local Gazetteer'' ] 1908 Archive.org
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_358.gif Andaman and Nicobar Islands"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 5, page 350.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_197.gif "Port Blair"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 20, page 191.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RegiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA31 "Act XXVII of 1861. Passed by the Legislative Council of India. An Act to regulate the administration of Port Blair and other settlements in the Andaman Islands], page 31 ''Hand Book for British Burma'' compiled by Captain G E Fryer 1867 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/andamanislands035497mbp#page/n5/mode/2up ''The Andaman Islands''] by F A M Dass 1937 Archive.org
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The '''Andaman Islands''' was the location of a penal colony during the British Raj. Port Blair is the capital.
A penal settlement existed for a short time in the 1790's but was abandoned due to disease. However, in 1858, after the Indian Mutiny, the penal settlement was re-established to deal effectively with native Indian troops who had recently rebelled. By the late 19th century the independence movement had picked up momentum. As a result, the number of prisoners being sent to the Andaman Islands started growing and the need for a high-security prison was felt. The construction of the Andaman Cellular Jail started in 1896 and was completed in 1906. Most of the prisoners were Indian political prisoners who were housed at the jail until 1937. The penal settlement was closed in 1945.
The Japanese occupied the Andaman Islands from 1942 to 1945 during the Second World War.
==FIBIS resources==
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7ExSHU5BYCgC&pg=PA24&dq=Port+Cornwallis+1796&hl=en&ei=zCubTPHKJ4jCswa1h6icBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false Historical Background] Google Books
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Blair Port Blair] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_Jail Cellular Jail] Wikipedia*[http://as.and.nic.in/TourismAND/Announcements/draftscriptRoss.pdf History of Ross Island] [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:f3NXBGZRwV0J:as.and.nic.in/TourismAND/Announcements/draftscriptRoss.pdf+Mouat+Andaman+1858&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESik-8vRYmjFhD69_O_opFJ1_Kl62yXUuc49E0fNvEZXEVNbaHTivRX2DAh7voozZ7ZIDvU4P-eHPRRbdeUGAB7fndmhhi4fjFoB4-bhaUDi5jTmGGS4OLh_urk5U6qfDtUJ5rby&sig=AHIEtbRwqo14oIANBvfbzRnWm68OOCB5Bg html version] as.and.nic.in
*[http://www.andamantourism.in/andamans-history-india.html History] andamantourism.in
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20110525205518/http://www.andamancellularjail.org/History.htm History of Andaman Cellular Jail] Andamancellularjailandamancellularjail.org, now an archived website.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kanad_sanyal/3070708517/ Cellular Jail] flickr.com
*This [http://www.hinduonnet.com/lr/2003/09/07/stories/2003090700240400.htm review], from ''The Hindu'', of the book ''Travel Writing and the Empire'' by Sachidananda Mohanty (Editor), gives details of one of the essays "Colonialism, Surveillance and Memoirs of travel: Tegart's Diaries and the Andaman Cellular Jail", where "Tutun Mukherjee looks at the "Memoir of an Indian Policeman", a compilation made by Tegart's wife of the diaries of Charles Augustus Tegart, British loyalist and Police Commissioner. The Memoir, Mukherjee notes, records a particularly violent chapter in India's colonial history, that of extremism, British repression and brutal colonial incarceration. Travelling to the Cellular Jail in the beautiful Andaman archipelago in 1913, Tegart notes the careful architecture of the prison, recording all the many ways in which the prisoners were kept under control, his eyes ever alert for lapses in vigilance". Available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/8187649364 FIBIS Shop]
*'The search for Black Rock" by Professor Clare Anderson. Discusses letters in the India Office archives of the British Library dated 1874-77 written by the Reverend Thomas L.J. Warneford
:[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2012/02/the-search-for-black-rock-part-i.html Part I] 20 February 2012, [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2012/02/the-search-for-black-rock-part-ii.html Part II] 23 February 2012 British Library Blog: Untold Lives: Sharing stories from the past
===Historical books online===
