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Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs Under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955

Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs Under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955

Aldrich, Robert

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Imperialism, Book 154

Biographies GeneralGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0719099730
ISBN13: 9780719099731
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Dec 27 2017
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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