{"product_id":"islanded-9780226038223","title":"Islanded","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? This title explores how the British organized the process of \"islanding,\" aiming to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Islanded makes a critical contribution to our understanding of South Asian and Indian ocean history and provides a novel lens through which to review both the British taking of and departure from India. Using a wealth of colonial and indigenous documents, Sujit Sivasundaram makes an intriguing argument that during the first phase of their rule, the British undertook an unfinished process of severing or 'partitioning' Sri Lanka from the mainland, so emphasizing its Buddhist and Sinhala character.\" (C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge)\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732900000087,"sku":"9780226038223","price":39.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/islanded-9780226038223","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}