After several riots in India, a need for more prison space arose for the British. They looked to the Andaman Islands as an easy place to put prisoners, white and Indian, that would help preserve space in India. The same frustrations between the British and Andamanese rose with the establishment of Port Blair. However, the colony was completely established on Ross Island. The British had envisioned the colony becoming larger and more substantive for them, but due to disease and enraged natives, the colony couldn't thrive. Any hopes of a long-term colony being established in the Andamans had failed.
In "The Andaman Islands Penal Colony: Race, Class, Criminality, and the British Empire," Clare Anderson talks about the hierarchies that were created among the prisoners in the colony. The Andamans became one of the largest penal colonies of the British. The people in the colony would be forced to endure high temperatures while performing manual labor. The native people of the Andaman Islands did everything in their will to uproot the British, but most of their efforts were futile or unsubstantial.
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