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Exile in Colonial Asia : Kings, Convicts, Commemoration / edited by Ronit Ricci, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Perspectives on the global past
- Perspectives on the Global Past
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exiles--Asia--History.
- Exiles.
- History.
- Asia.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 pages) : 14 black and white illustrations.
- Contained In:
- De Gruyter University Press Library.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- 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 those exiled, relatives left behind, colonial officials, and subsequent generations of descendants, devotees, historians, and politicians. Intended for a broad readership interested in the colonial period in Asia (South and Southeast Asia in particular), the volume encompasses a range of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies.In addition to presenting fascinating, little-known, and varied case studies of exile in colonial Asia and Australia, the chapters collectively offer a sweeping, contextualized, comparative approach that links the narratives of diverse peoples and locales. Rather than confining research to the European colonial archives, whenever possible the authors put special emphasis on the use of indigenous primary sources hitherto little explored. Exile in Colonial Asia invites imaginative methodological innovation in exploring multiple archives and expands our theoretical frontiers in thinking about the interconnected histories of penal deportation, labor migration, political exile, colonial expansion, and individual destinies.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- MAPS
- INTRODUCTION Exile in Colonial Asia Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
- ONE. A Global History of Exile in Asia, c. 1700-1900
- TWO .Out of Ceylon The Exile of the Last King of Kandy
- THREE ."Near China beyond the Seas Far Far Distant from Juggernath" The Mid-Nineteenth- Century Exile of Bhai Maharaj Singh in Singapore
- FOUR. From Java to Jaffna Exile and Return in Dutch Asia in the Eighteenth Century
- FIVE. Caught between Empires Babad Mangkudiningratan and the Exile of Sultan Hamengkubuwana II of Yogyakarta, 1813-1826
- SIX. Exile, Colonial Space, and Deterritorialized People in Eastern Indonesian History
- SEVEN .Belongings and Belonging Indonesian Histories in Inventories from the Cape of Good Hope
- EIGHT. An Exile's Lamentations? The Convict Experience in New South Wales, Australia, 1788-1840
- NINE. Prisoners from Indochina in the Nineteenth-Century French Colonial World
- TEN .Watching the Detectives The Elusive Exile of Prince Myngoon of Burma
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
- ISBN:
- 9780824853754
- OCLC:
- 953970382
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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