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Exile in colonial Asia : kings, convicts, commemoration /Ronit Ricci

By: Ronit RicciContributor(s): Ronit RicciMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Brijwasi Book Distributors | ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press , 2016Description: vii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780824853747Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Exiles -- Asia -- History.DDC classification: 305.9069 RIC

Contents:

A global history of exile in Asia, c. 1700-1900 / Clare Anderson -- Out of Ceylon : the exile of the last king of Kandy / Robert Aldrich -- "Near China beyond the seas far far distant from Juggernath" : the mid-nineteenth century exile of Bhai Maharaj Singh in Singapore / Anand A. Yang -- From Java to Jaffna : exile and return in Dutch Asia in the eighteenth century / Ronit Ricci -- Caught between empires : Babad Mangkudiningratan and the exile of Sultan Hamengkubuwana II of Yogyakarta, 1813-1826 / Sri Margana -- Exile, colonial space, and deterritorialised people in Eastern Indonesian history / Timo Kaartinen -- Belongings and belonging : Indonesian histories in inventories from the Cape of Good Hope / Jean Gelman Taylor -- An exile's lamentations? : the convict experience in New South Wales 1788-1840 / Carol Liston -- Prisoners from Indochina in the nineteenth-century French colonial world / Lorraine M. Paterson -- Watching the detectives : the elusive exile of Prince Myingoon of Burma / Penny Edwards.

Summary: Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration explores the phenomenon of exile within and from colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries from several disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. Chapters cover myriad contexts from Colombo to Cape Town, from New Caledonia to New South Wales, from Burma to Banda; French, British, and Dutch policies toward, and practices of banishment; various categories of people whose lives were touched or shaped by exile in the colonial period, among them royalty, slaves, convicts, rebels, soldiers and officials; the condition of exile and the ways it was remembered, reconfigured, and commemorated after the fact. Rather than confining themselves to the European colonial archives, the authors, whenever possible, put special emphasis on the use of indigenous primary sources hitherto little explored. In addition to presenting fascinating, little known, and diverse case studies of exile in colonial Asia, the volume collectively offers a broad, contextualized, comparative perspective on a theme that links the narratives of diverse peoples and locales, 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.

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A global history of exile in Asia, c. 1700-1900 / Clare Anderson --
Out of Ceylon : the exile of the last king of Kandy / Robert Aldrich --
"Near China beyond the seas far far distant from Juggernath" : the mid-nineteenth century exile of Bhai Maharaj Singh in Singapore / Anand A. Yang --
From Java to Jaffna : exile and return in Dutch Asia in the eighteenth century / Ronit Ricci --
Caught between empires : Babad Mangkudiningratan and the exile of Sultan Hamengkubuwana II of Yogyakarta, 1813-1826 / Sri Margana --
Exile, colonial space, and deterritorialised people in Eastern Indonesian history / Timo Kaartinen --
Belongings and belonging : Indonesian histories in inventories from the Cape of Good Hope / Jean Gelman Taylor --
An exile's lamentations? : the convict experience in New South Wales 1788-1840 / Carol Liston --
Prisoners from Indochina in the nineteenth-century French colonial world / Lorraine M. Paterson --
Watching the detectives : the elusive exile of Prince Myingoon of Burma / Penny Edwards.

Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration explores the phenomenon of exile within and from colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries from several disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. Chapters cover myriad contexts from Colombo to Cape Town, from New Caledonia to New South Wales, from Burma to Banda; French, British, and Dutch policies toward, and practices of banishment; various categories of people whose lives were touched or shaped by exile in the colonial period, among them royalty, slaves, convicts, rebels, soldiers and officials; the condition of exile and the ways it was remembered, reconfigured, and commemorated after the fact. Rather than confining themselves to the European colonial archives, the authors, whenever possible, put special emphasis on the use of indigenous primary sources hitherto little explored. In addition to presenting fascinating, little known, and diverse case studies of exile in colonial Asia, the volume collectively offers a broad, contextualized, comparative perspective on a theme that links the narratives of diverse peoples and locales, 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.

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