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Banished Potentates - Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs Under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (Hardcover)
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Banished Potentates - Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs Under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar
episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few
months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king
in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the
deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and
French - with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam,
Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco - from the early nineteenth century
down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native
sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a
powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords
were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered
countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the
legacies they left behind. -- .
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