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Islanded : Britain, Sri Lanka, and the bounds of an Indian Ocean colony /
'Islanded' makes a critical contribution to our understanding of South Asian and Indian ocean history and provides a novel lens through which to review both the British taking of and departure from India. Using a wealth of colonial and indigenous documents, Sujit Sivasundaram makes an intr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 'Islanded' makes a critical contribution to our understanding of South Asian and Indian ocean history and provides a novel lens through which to review both the British taking of and departure from India. Using a wealth of colonial and indigenous documents, Sujit Sivasundaram makes an intriguing argument that during the first phases of their rule, the British undertook an unfinished process of severing or 'partitioning' Sri Lanka from the mainland, so emphasizing its Buddhist and Sinhala character. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 369 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 022603836X 9780226038360 1299784674 9781299784673 |