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The Pilimatalavuvas in the Last Days of the Kandyan Kingdom
History of Sri Lanka in fag end of 18th century and 19th century and some prominent nobility of the period.
The Chieftains in the Last Phase of the Kandyan Kingdom (Sinhalé)
Collective biographies of chieftains of Sri Lanka in late 18th century and the political conditions of their times.
Exile in Colonial Asia
Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” royals banished as political exiles; “convicts,” the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and “commemoration,” referring to the myriad ways in which the experience and its aftermath were remembered by...
Banished potentates
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.
Biographical Sketches of Some Kandyan Chieftains in the Last Phase of Tri Sinhalē
Collective biographies of chieftains of Sri Lanka in late 18th century and the political conditions of their times.
Der Kampf um Zimt und Betelnuss: Der Krieg zwischen der VOC und dem K”nigreich Kandy 1761 bis 1766
Gewrze waren seit alters her eine Haupttriebfeder zur Entdeckung und Erforschung fremder Erdteile durch die europ„ischen M„chte. Insbesondere der sd- und sdostasiatische Raum war durch die klimatisch vorteilhafte Lage ein begehrtes Ziel fr europ„ische Flotten. Selten konnten sich die bestehenden Strukturen und Herrschaften gegen die neuen Konkurrenten durchsetzen oder ihre angestammte Lebensweise fortsetzen. Eine Ausnahme bildete das K”nigreich Kandy auf Ceylon, das geschickt die europ„ischen Groám„chte, angefangen von den Portugiesen ber die Holl„nder bis zu den Franzosen und Engl„ndern, gegeneinander ausspielte und seine Machtposition und Unabh„ngigkeit bewahre...
