Description
Book SynopsisAn examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s.
Trade Review‘The book is particularly inspiring … in that it takes the institution of monarchy with all its ceremonies, backgrounds, political-religious ideas, and contexts seriously, even in a time of (supposedly) anti-monarchical nationalism, colonialism, and modernity. This study shows once again how influential monarchical ideas and conventions remained after the French Revolution.’
Cathleen Sarti, Royal Studies Journal
‘It is always a pleasure to write a review on a book that is so easily readable and really adds to one’s own knowledge in a significant manner. […] The book is particularly inspiring—from the perspective of a pre-modern royal studies scholar—in that it takes the institution of monarchy with all its ceremonies, backgrounds, political-religious ideas, and contexts seriously, even in a time of (supposedly) anti-monarchical nationalism, colonialism, and modernity. This study shows once again how influential monarchical ideas and conventions remained after the French Revolution.’
Cathleen Sarti, Royal Studies Journal
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Table of Contents1 Thrones and dominion: European colonisers and indigenous monarchs
2 The last king in Ceylon: the British and Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, 1815
3 Kings of Orient were: royal exile in British Asia
4 ‘Dragons of Annam’: the French and three emperors in Vietnam
5 Out of Africa: the British, French and African monarchs
6 The French and the queen of Madagascar: Ranavalona III, 1897
7 From conquest to decolonisation: exile from French North Africa
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
