Exile in Colonial Asia

Exile in Colonial Asia

Kings, Convicts, Commemoration

In: Perspectives on the Global Past

With contributions by: Clare Anderson, Robert Aldrich, Anand A. Yang, Ronit Ricci, Sri Margana, Timo Kaartinen, Jean Gelman Taylor, Carol Liston, Lorraine M. Paterson and Penny Edwards
Edited by: Ronit Ricci, Anand A. Yang and Kieko Matteson

University of Hawaii Press | 2016

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824853754

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Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” royals banished as political exiles; “convicts,” the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and “commemoration,” referring to the myriad ways in which the experience and its aftermath were remembered by those exiled, relatives left behind, colonial officials, and subsequent generations of descendants, devotees, historians, and politicians. Intended for a broad readership interested in the colonial period in Asia (South and Southeast Asia in particular), the volume encompasses a range of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies.

In addition to presenting fascinating, little-known, and varied case studies of exile in colonial Asia and Australia, the chapters collectively offer a sweeping, contextualized, comparative approach that links the narratives of diverse peoples and locales. Rather than confining research to the European colonial archives, whenever possible the authors put special emphasis on the use of indigenous primary sources hitherto little explored. Exile in Colonial Asia invites imaginative methodological innovation in exploring multiple archives and expands our theoretical frontiers in thinking about the interconnected histories of penal deportation, labor migration, political exile, colonial expansion, and individual destinies.

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RicciRonit:

Ronit Ricci is associate professor at the School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University.EdwardsPenny:

Penny Edwards is associate professor of Southeast Asian studies, University of California, Berkeley.

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. . . the essays in this volume provide exceptional insights into the nature, experience, and legacies of exile. The sensitivity to archive, to historical context and cultural meaning, is exceptional, and the essays work together to provide a challenging basis for future research and analysis. For the study of modern Asia as an interconnected domain of authority, mobility, and experience, for the history and literature of empire, nation, and selfhood, these essays break significant new ground.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Acknowledgments Free access PDF PDF	vii
MAPS Free access PDF PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Exile in Colonial Asia Kings, Convicts, Commemoration Ronit Ricci Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
ONE. A Global History of Exile in Asia, c. 1700–1900 Clare Anderson Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	20
TWO .Out of Ceylon The Exile of the Last King of Kandy Robert Aldrich Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	48
THREE .“Near China beyond the Seas Far Far Distant from Juggernath” The Mid-Nineteenth- Century Exile of Bhai Maharaj Singh in Singapore Anand A. Yang Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	71
FOUR. From Java to Jaffna Exile and Return in Dutch Asia in the Eighteenth Century Ronit Ricci Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	94
FIVE. Caught between Empires Babad Mangkudiningratan and the Exile of Sultan Hamengkubuwana II of Yogyakarta, 1813–1826 Sri Margana Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	117
SIX. Exile, Colonial Space, and Deterritorialized People in Eastern Indonesian History Timo Kaartinen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	139
SEVEN .Belongings and Belonging Indonesian Histories in Inventories from the Cape of Good Hope Jean Gelman Taylor Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	165
EIGHT. An Exile’s Lamentations? The Convict Experience in New South Wales, Australia, 1788–1840 Carol Liston Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	193
NINE. Prisoners from Indochina in the Nineteenth-Century French Colonial World Lorraine M. Paterson Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	220
TEN .Watching the Detectives The Elusive Exile of Prince Myngoon of Burma Penny Edwards Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	248
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	279
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	283

Exile in Colonial Asia

Kings, Convicts, Commemoration

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