Islanded: the British Empire and Sri Lanka

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• Sujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College)
• Tuesday 26 February 2013, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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This talk is open to the public

How did the British come to conquer South Asia? Answers usually start in northern India, not Sri Lanka. This paper considers the arrival of British rule as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement.’Islanding’ recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs fascinated the British.

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