Banished potentates : dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815-1955 /

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 monarc...

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