(Dis)Connecting the Andamans: Cyclones, colonial telecommunication and the making of meteorological networks in the Bay of Bengal
The Indian Economic & Social History Review
Published online on January 23, 2026
Abstract
The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 77-102, January–March 2026.
This article examines the Andaman Islands not merely as a remote penal colony but as a key node in the Bay of Bengal’s evolving meteorological and communication networks. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British meteorologists, the ...
This article examines the Andaman Islands not merely as a remote penal colony but as a key node in the Bay of Bengal’s evolving meteorological and communication networks. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British meteorologists, the ...