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An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s.
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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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Price: £85.00
Pages: 328
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Publication Date: 27 December 2017
ISBN: 9780719099731
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

HISTORY / Civilization, Colonialism and imperialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty, General and world history, Politics and government, Social and cultural history
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‘The book is particularly inspiring … in that it takes the institution of monarchy with all its ceremonies, backgrounds, political-religious ideas, and contexts seriously, even in a time of (supposedly) anti-monarchical nationalism, colonialism, and modernity. This study shows once again how influential monarchical ideas and conventions remained after the French Revolution.’
Cathleen Sarti, Royal Studies Journal

‘It is always a pleasure to write a review on a book that is so easily readable and really adds to one’s own knowledge in a significant manner. […] The book is particularly inspiring—from the perspective of a pre-modern royal studies scholar—in that it takes the institution of monarchy with all its ceremonies, backgrounds, political-religious ideas, and contexts seriously, even in a time of (supposedly) anti-monarchical nationalism, colonialism, and modernity. This study shows once again how influential monarchical ideas and conventions remained after the French Revolution.’
Cathleen Sarti, Royal Studies Journal

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History at the University of Sydney

1 Thrones and dominion: European colonisers and indigenous monarchs
2 The last king in Ceylon: the British and Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, 1815
3 Kings of Orient were: royal exile in British Asia
4 ‘Dragons of Annam’: the French and three emperors in Vietnam
5 Out of Africa: the British, French and African monarchs
6 The French and the queen of Madagascar: Ranavalona III, 1897
7 From conquest to decolonisation: exile from French North Africa
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index