Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Frontispiece; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Paths through Mountains and Seas; 1. Peoples; 2. Trade; 3. Scholars; 4. Sites; 5. Gardens; 6. Land; 7. Medicine; 8. Publics; Conclusion: Convolutions of Space and Time; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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 the British colonial project was framed by the island's traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided.</DIV
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-358) and index
