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This is the first comprehensive account of the history of the Chagos islands from the time that they began to feature on navigational maps to the expulsion of the Chagos islanders from their homes in the early 1970s. Based on exhaustive archival research and supplemented by the recollections of islanders, this is an impressive piece of historical reconstruction that gives the reader a sense of daily life on these isolated and largely neglected colonial possessions during the period of slavery and after....This book will be invaluable to scholars of the Indian Ocean and its diasporas, as well as to the exiled Chagossians themselves, still fighting a legal battle in the British courts.
- Professor Megan Vaughan, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College, London.
This first ever comprehensive and well-researched history of the Chagos provides a most valuable background of a people expelled by Britain from their land to accomodate the defence needs of the Americans in Diego Garcia. As they grapple with this injustice Chagossians exiled in Mauritius, Seychelles, and the UK can look to their future with a much deeper pride and knowledge of their past.
- Rt. Hon. Lord Luce, Member of Chagos Islands (BIOT) All-Party Parliamentary Group.