Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration 9780824853754
Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twent
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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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
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
