Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony
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How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:022603822X
ISBN13:9780226038223
Release Date:August 2013
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.48 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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