Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

by Sujit Sivasundaram

Book Overview

How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022603822X
• ISBN13: 9780226038223
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"