Reappropriation, Resistance, and British Autocracy in Sri Lanka, 1820–1850
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 8958451 |
|---|---|
| Autores | James Wilson (0009-0008-9401-7036), James David Wilson (University of Cambridge, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 47-69 |
| Data de publicação | 2016-09-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x16000091 |
| OpenAlex | W2519731278 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 28 |
Sri Lanka's kingdom of Kandy fell to the British in 1815 and a rebellion in its name was defeated two years later. Across the next three decades, islanders took up religious ceremonies, legal concepts, and regal traditions formerly linked to Kandy's king and his court. These reappropriations were responses to efforts by the state to control Sri Lanka: expressions of kingship reassembled in particular ways to resist specific British incursions. Critically, islanders situated these activities in historical, colonial, and global contexts, manipulating transoceanic and imperial networks. Although they invariably failed, episodes of reappropriation bemused colonists with their complexities and globalisms and gradually subverted British autocracy, the form of imperial governance in Sri Lanka. Autocracy then gave way to more regularized modes of rule. Bringing together three separate examples, this article disputes an important argument about Sri Lanka's insurgent national character and reveals islanders’ elaborate responses to the incursions of imperialism. More broadly, it suggests that such episodes should be viewed as creative instances of resistance that deployed networks, practices, and ideas and became enmeshed with the development of the state through their influence over colonial governance. This locates aspects of imperial change within the Indian Ocean world
Ancient history · Autocracy · Colonialism · Democracy · Genealogy · Geography · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · South asia · Sri lanka · State (computer science · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
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Recovering Liberties
The city as text
Imperial Meridian
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
An Account of the Interior of Ceylon, and of its Inhabitants
Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815
Empire and locality
Many Little Revolts or One Rebellion? The Maritime Provinces of Ceylon/Sri Lanka between 1796 and 1800
Buddhist Kingship, British Archaeology and Historical Narratives in Sri Lanka c.1750 1850
Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka
War, Empire and Slavery, 1770–1830
The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c.1760–1840
Buddhist Connections in the Indian Ocean
Sri Lanka in the Long Early Modern Period
Sinhalese Social Organization
Sinhalese Social Organization
The 1848 Revolutions and the British Empire
Tales of the Land
Wider Opportunities
Visions of the Rebels
Race Matters
Colonial Governmentality
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |