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Banished potentates: Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815–1955 (Studies in Imperialism Book 154) by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Robert Aldrich is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"The deposition and exile of native monarchs was a key strategy in British and French efforts to secure control over their possessions in Asia and Africa. Taken as prisoners of war, implicated in rebellions or charged with misgovernment or immorality, indigenous rulers were dethroned and their dynasties sometimes abolished. They were then banished to distant places, in hopes they could not escape or serve as rallying-points for anti-colonial agitation. This wide-ranging study offers new insights into culture contact, indirect rule and indigenous agency in colonial situations. It examines the particular circumstances for the ouster of Asian and African emperors, kings and queens, maharajas and sultans. It looks at the often poignant lived experiences of the deposed rulers and their families in exile, assessing their later place in historical narrative and collective memory. Finally, it argues that even when colonisers 'kicked out' local sovereigns, they could not fully efface the potency of monarchism in national identity, anti-colonial campaigns and the heritage exiles left behind. Case studies range from the removal of the King of Kandy in Ceylon in 1815 - toppled and exiled just
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- Author
- Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Robert Aldrich
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press Oxford University Press, Incorporated [Distributor
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526113450
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
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